noun. Any of several steroid hormones produced primarily by the ovaries that stimulate the development and maintenance of female secondary sex characteristics, exert systemic effects such as the growth and maturation of long bones, promote estrus in many female mammals, and are used as a drug primarily to treat estrogen deficiency.

noun. Any of several synthetic compounds that mimic the physiologic activity of estrogen, used primarily in oral contraceptives.

noun. Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

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

"A lot of us like to fling around the word estrogen the way a pizza maker flings around dough, but the truth is that estrogen is a lot more complicated than that."

sex hormone  steroid  steroid hormone  

DES  diethylstilbestrol  diethylstilboestrol  estradiol  estriol  

adiponectin  cortisol  cytokine  dopamine  estradiol