Usually means: Hormone, regulates menstruation and pregnancy.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. progesterone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. progesterone: Merriam-Webster
  3. progesterone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. progesterone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. progesterone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. progesterone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Progesterone, progesterone: Wordnik
  8. progesterone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. progesterone: Wiktionary
  10. progesterone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. progesterone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. progesterone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. progesterone: Dictionary.com
  14. progesterone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Progesterone (medication), Progesterone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. progesterone: Rhymezone
  17. progesterone: FreeDictionary.org
  18. progesterone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. progesterone: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. progesterone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. progesterone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Progesterone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  7. Progesterone: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  11. progesterone: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  12. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  13. Progesterone: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  14. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  15. progesterone: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  16. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  17. progesterone: Medical dictionary
  18. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Progesterone: Drug Medical Dictionary
  20. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Progesterone: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See progesterones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (biochemistry, steroids, uncountable) A steroid hormone, secreted by the ovaries, whose function is to prepare the uterus for the implantation of a fertilized ovum and to maintain pregnancy.
noun:  (biochemistry, steroids, countable) A synthetic version of the compound, used in contraceptive pills and other pharmaceutical products.

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