Meaning of human growth hormone in English:
human growth hormone
noun
Physiology MedicineThe human form of growth hormone (somatotropin); (also) a pharmaceutical preparation of this, originally obtained from pituitaries at autopsy, later produced by recombinant DNA technology, and used chiefly to treat children with pituitary dwarfism; abbreviated HGH.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Albuquerque Journal.
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