estrogen
estrogen
Definition
es·tro·gen (es′trə jən, -jen′)
estrogen
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- produce: This is because the body stops producing estrogen after the menopause.
- take: His doctors remain amazed at the glacial pace of his losses. Think taking estrogen will save your memory?
- use: Mortality decreased with increasing duration of use and was lower among current users than among women who used estrogens only in the distant past.
- contain: Birth control pills that contain estrogen may not be as effective while you are taking tetracycline drugs.
- give: For lack of estrogen, we'll give estrogen.
Preposition: in
- body: Steroid users take Nolvadex to prevent the effects of estrogen in the body.
Adjective modifier
- conjugated: There was no bleeding or spotting in 75.5 % of the cycles for patients who took conjugated estrogens alone.
- equine: Long term use of equine estrogens probably also increases the risk of breast cancer.
- synthetic: The partitioning of natural and synthetic estrogens between aqueous and solid phases in river systems.
- human: Phytoestrogens are natural plant compounds which have a similarity to human estrogens.
- female: They do know that after women go through menopause, levels of the female hormone estrogen are much lower.
- natural: Once docked on the sites they exert estrogen-like activity and can therefore initiate the required effect just as natural estrogen would have done.
Modifies a noun
- modulator: Novel SERMs ( selective estrogen receptor modulators ) are taking a different tack in the R&D stakes.
- receptor: Engineering of a mouse for the in vivo profiling of estrogen receptor activity.
- replacement: Young women who must undergo a BSO usually do need to consider appropriate estrogen replacement for numerous health benefits.
- therapy: The effect of postmenopausal estrogen therapy on the risk of cardiovascular disease remains controversial.
- level: Beside which Alcohol can cause estrogen levels to rocket.
- production: People with insulin resistance actually produce more circulating insulin to counteract the problem; insulin stimulates estrogen production.
Noun used with modifier
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