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PROTROPIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trade name of a synthetic human growth hormone given to children deficient in the hormone; use by athletes and weightlifters is banned
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Hypernyms ("Protropin" is a kind of...):
growth hormone; human growth hormone; somatotrophic hormone; somatotrophin; somatotropic hormone; somatotropin; STH (a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans)
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