Common Terms and Word Elements for Hormones

Question 1

HORMON/O
(hor‐mō‐nō)

Answer 1

Hormone

Question 2

‐IN
(ĭn)

‐INE
(ĭn)

Answer 2

Hormone or chemical substance

Question 3

TROP/O
(trō‐pō)

Answer 3

Hormone that stimulates something; a turn, turning, change

Question 4

TROPH/O
(trŏf‐ō)

Answer 4

Nourishment, growth

Question 5

AG/O
(ăg‐ō)

AGOG/O
(ă‐gŏg‐ō)

‐AGOGUE
(ă‐gŏg)

Answer 5

Hormone that promotes something; leading forth, duct

Question 6

GEST/O
(jĕs‐tō)

GER/O
(jĕr‐ō)

‐GER
(jĕr)

Answer 6

Hormone that helps with bearing (progestin); to carry, produce, bear

Question 7

POIET/O
(poy‐ē‐tō)

‐POIESIS
(poy‐ē‐sĭs)

Answer 7

Hormone that stimulates the production/making of something (‐poietin); to make or produce

Question 8

STAT/O
(stat‐ō)

Answer 8

Hormone that inhibits/stops something (‐statin); to stand or stop

Question 9

GEN/O
(jĕn‐ō)

‐GEN
(jĕn)

Answer 9

hormone that produces something (‐gen), become, produced, born

Question 10

KIN/O
(kĭ‐nō)

CIN/O
(sĭ‐nō)

‐KINESIS
(kĭ‐nē‐sĭs)

‐CINESIS
(sĭ‐nē‐sĭs)

Answer 10

Hormone or chemical that stimulates activity, movement (‐kinin), action

Question 11

GYNEC/O
(gī‐nĕ‐kō)

GYN/O
(gī‐nō)

Answer 11

Female, woman, pistil of a flower

Question 12

ANDR/O
(an‐drō)

Answer 12

Male, man, stamen of a flower

Question 13

LIBER/O
(lĭ‐buh‐rō)

Answer 13

A hormone or chemical that releases another hormone (‐liberin), to free

Question 14

ESTR/O
(ĕs‐trō)

Answer 14

Estrogen, estrus cycle (breeding period), sexual desire

Question 15

INSUL/O
(in‐sŭ‐lō)

Answer 15

Insulin, island

Question 16

GLUC/O
(gloo‐kō)

GLYC/O
(glī‐kō)

Answer 16

Sugar, glucose

Question 17

TON/O
(ton‐ō)

Answer 17

A hormone that produces a healthy strength or tension (‐tonin) of something; tension, stretching, tone (esp. in muscles)

Question 18

TOC/O
(tō‐kō)

Answer 18

Labor, parturition