Definition of hormonal
1 : of, relating to, utilizing, or produced by hormones hormonal changes hormonal therapy
2 : markedly influenced or affected by hormones (such as sex hormones) : exhibiting behavior characteristic of increasing or fluctuating hormone levels moody hormonal teenagers
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Most women in both groups received radiation, and those with hormone-sensitive breast cancer started on hormonal medications.
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Yearwood said his daughter will begin consultations in June about hormonal treatment.
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Their hormonal precursors---the ITP/CHH's---had more divergent origins, popping up around 410 million years ago in spiders and 250 million years ago in centipedes.
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This may be due to anatomical and hormonal differences, Covassin said, but further study is needed to understand why women are at greater risk of concussions and take longer to recover from them.
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1926
First Known Use of hormonal
1926
Medical Dictionary
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