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ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules
Synonyms:
ADH; antidiuretic hormone; Pitressin; vasopressin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("antidiuretic hormone" is a kind of...):
pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)
endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)
Context examples:
The infundibulum is open to the third ventricle to allow for the release of antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin.
(Brain Infundibulum, NCI Thesaurus)
A laboratory test result which indicates abnormal levels of antidiuretic hormone in the blood.
(Abnormal Blood Antidiuretic Hormone, NCI Thesaurus)
It secretes antidiuretic hormone.
(Pituicyte, NCI Thesaurus)
