Noun: prolactin
| Singular | prolactin |
| Plural | prolactins |
Sample Sentences
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Men get a dose of the hormone prolactin after orgasm and this acts as a sedative. [2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:]
Nouns inflected like prolactin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pro- (from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”)) + lact- (variation of lacto-, from Latin lac (“milk”)) + -in (modification of -ine). See: Latin Nouns '
lac'.
Verbs referencing "prolactin"
Finnish Nouns
prolaktiini.