| 词汇 | hormone |
| 词源 | hormone. British scientist Dr. E. H. Sterling coined the word hormone from a Greek root meaning “to set in motion,” in a 1905 article he wrote for the Lancet about such “chemical mes- sengers.” A hormone can be defined as “a substance formed in one organ and carried by the blood-stream to another organ, which it stimulates [sets in motion].” |
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