estrogen

English

Alternative forms

oestrogen (UK)
œstrogen (UK)

Etymology

From estrus +‎ -gen (“a producer of”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛstɹədʒən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈiːstɹəd͡ʒən/

Noun

estrogen (countable and uncountable, plural estrogens)

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

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Translations

estrogen

Afrikaans: estrogeen
Asturian: estróxenu m
Catalan: estrogen m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雌激素 (cíjīsù)
Czech: estrogen (cs) m
Dutch: oestrogeen (nl) n, estrogeen (nl) n
Esperanto: oestrogeno
Finnish: estrogeeni (fi)
French: œstrogène (fr) m
Galician: estróxeno m
German: Östrogen (de) n

Hindi: स्त्रीमदजन (strīmadjan)
Hungarian: ösztrogén (hu)
Irish: éastraigin f
Italian: estrogeno (it) m
Japanese: エストロゲン (esutorogen)
Kurdish: ostrojen (ku) f
Maori: taiaki uwha
Persian: استروژن‎ (esterožen)
Portuguese: estrogénio (pt) m (Portugal), estrogênio (pt) m (Brazil), estrógeno (pt) m
Russian: эстроге́н (ru) m (estrogén)
Spanish: estrógeno (es) m
Swedish: östrogen (sv) n

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Czech

Noun

estrogen m

estrogen

Further reading

estrogen in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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