hormonal

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adjective

of or relating to a hormone or hormones.
hormonal secretions from endocrine glands.
exhibiting any of the emotional and behavioral effects of one’s sex hormones: They’re just hormonal boys looking at nude pictures.
I was hormonal after giving birth, crying over nothing.
They’re just hormonal boys looking at nude pictures.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hormonal¹

First recorded in 1925–30; hormon(e) ( def. ) + -al ¹ ( def. )

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The hawk's "unusual" behaviour was likely hormonal or territorial and he was "not nasty at all", Wayne said.

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The ARHGAP36 gene is also active in many other areas of the body including the brain and hormonal glands, and is considered important for development.

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"If we have created an environment where it's not possible to study sex differences or hormonal exposures then we are literally erasing an aspect of science"

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This includes treatments such as hormonal contraceptives and intrauterine delivery systems.

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The cartoon ditches Michael Bay’s greasy hormonal Earthlings to zoom back to the robots’ home planet of Cybertron, gorgeously rendered in the perfectly lighted pastels of an old Soviet sci-fi movie.

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hormogonium hormone

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