Usually means: Stimulates growth, cell reproduction, regeneration.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. growth hormone: Merriam-Webster
  2. growth hormone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. growth hormone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. growth hormone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. growth hormone: Vocabulary.com
  6. growth-hormone: Wordnik
  7. growth hormone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. growth hormone: Wiktionary
  9. growth hormone: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. growth hormone: Dictionary.com
  11. Growth Hormone (treatment), Growth Hormone, Growth hormone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Growth hormone: Rhymezone
  13. growth hormone: FreeDictionary.org
  14. growth hormone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. growth hormone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. growth hormone: Legal dictionary
  2. growth hormone: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. growth hormone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. growth hormone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Growth hormone, Hormone, growth: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Growth hormone: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  8. growth hormone: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. growth hormone: Medical dictionary
  11. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Growth hormone, Hormone, growth: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Growth hormone: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Growth Hormone: Body Building

(Note: See growth_hormones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (growth hormone)

noun:  A polypeptide hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland in many animals including humans, that promotes growth and regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids.
noun:  (often, in context) The human homologue specifically: human growth hormone.
noun:  A synthetic substance that produces similar effects in the body:
noun:  somatropin, an rhGH (for humans).
noun:  somatrem, an rhGH (for humans).
noun:  rBST (for cattle).
noun:  rBGH (for cattle).

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