Usually means: Local hormone, acts near site.
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  1. autacoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. autacoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. autacoid: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autacoid: Vocabulary.com
  5. autacoid: Wordnik
  6. autacoid: Wiktionary
  7. autacoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. autacoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. autacoid: Dictionary.com
  10. Autacoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. autacoid: Rhymezone
  12. autacoid: FreeDictionary.org
  13. autacoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. autacoid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. autacoid: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. autacoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Autacoid: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  5. autacoid: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Autacoid: Medicinal Chemistry

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autacoid)

▸ noun:  (biochemistry) A hormone or similar compound that has a short-term, local effect

Similar:
autocoid, autoacoid, acedoxin, corticoid, aptocaine, agonist, calcantagonist, hormone, antiauxin, androctonin, more...

Opposite:
alloacoid, exocrine, paracrine

Adjectives:
pituitary, second, suprarenal, important, hypothetical, inhibitory, same, chalonic

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Similar:
autocoid, autoacoid, acedoxin, corticoid, aptocaine, agonist, calcantagonist, hormone, antiauxin, androctonin, more...

Opposite:
alloacoid, exocrine, paracrine

Adjectives:
pituitary, second, suprarenal, important, hypothetical, inhibitory, same, chalonic



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