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dehydrocorticosterone
noun
de·hy·dro·corticosterone
\(ˌ)dēˌhīdrō+\
Definition of dehydrocorticosterone
: a crystalline triketone C21H28O4 extracted from the adrenal cortex and also made synthetically —called also 11-dehydrocorticosterone — see cortisone
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Origin and Etymology of dehydrocorticosterone
International Scientific Vocabulary dehydr- + corticosterone
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