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- adjective physiology Relating to or denoting
foreign hormones being taken up andeliciting a response in anorganism (for example, hormones in breast milk.)
Etymologies
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Late 20th century: from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (allos) + κρίνω (krinō, "separate").
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