hormonal

adj — 3 senses

hormonal

adj

US /hɔɹˈmoʊnəl/

Etymology From hormone + -al.

1

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Pertaining to hormones.

The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs.2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, in CNN:

2

Colloquial Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.

3

Strongly affected by one's hormones.

a hormonal teenage boy
All those male bodies and loud, virile male hormonal voices.1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:

Derived terms: allohormonal, antihormonal, bihormonal, chemohormonal, ectohormonal, hormonally, hyperhormonal, multihormonal, neurohormonal, nonhormonal, parahormonal, phytohormonal, plurihormonal, polyhormonal, unihormonal, xenohormonal

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