Synonyms for estrogen
ˈɛs trə dʒənes·tro·gen

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1. estrogen, oestrogennoun

   a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics

   Synonyms:
   oestrogen

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1. List of paraphrases for "estrogen":

   estrogens, estrogenic

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1. Charles DeCarli:

   It's not just estrogen, there's progesterone, luteinizing hormone, blood volume, let me tell you, women are different from men, men may never achieve the same level of memory performance because their brains are developing differently from the beginning.

2. Leonardo Trasande:

   BPA is a synthetic estrogen, and sex hormones shape nearly every bodily function during fetal development.

3. Nikita Shah:

   The way tamoxifen works is you’re depriving your cancer cells of estrogen, which is their nutrition, so that will only work for the cancers that are estrogen-fed or progesterone-fed.

4. Lisa Richardson:

   The thing that seems to drive breast cancer is total exposure to estrogen over a lifetime.

5. Laura Vandenberg:

   One major risk factor for breast cancer is lifetime exposure to estrogen, dDT and DDT metabolites – breakdown products produced in our body after DDT exposures – can add up with the estrogen produced by our bodies, as well as other synthetic estrogens in our environment, to contribute to risk.