Hormone Actions

Question 1

hormon/o

Answer 1

hormone

Question 2

-in, -ine

Answer 2

hormone or chemical substance

Question 3

trop/o

Answer 3

hormone that stimulates something; turn, turning, change

Question 4

troph/o

Answer 4

growth, nourishment

Question 5

ag/o, agog/o, -agogue

Answer 5

hormone that promotes something; leading forth, duct

Question 6

gest/o, -gest, ger/o, -ger

Answer 6

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

Question 7

poiet/o, -poeisis

Answer 7

hormone that stimulates production/making of something; to make or produce

Question 8

stat/o

Answer 8

hormone that inhibits/stops something; to stand or stop

Question 9

gen/o, -gen

Answer 9

hormone that produces something, become, produced, born

Question 10

kin/o, cin/o, -kinesis, -cinesis

Answer 10

hormone or chemical that stimulates activity, movement, action

Question 11

gynec/o, gyn/o

Answer 11

female, woman, pistil of flower

Question 12

andr/o

Answer 12

male, man, stamen of flower

Question 13

liber/o

Answer 13

hormone or chemical that releases another hormone; to free

Question 14

estr/o

Answer 14

estrogen, estrus cycle, sexual desire

Question 15

insul/o

Answer 15

insulin, island

Question 16

gluc/o, glyc/o

Answer 16

sugar, glucose

Question 17

ton/o

Answer 17

hormone that produces healthy strength or tension of something; tension, stretching, tone

Question 18

toc/o, tok/o

Answer 18

labor, parturition