Usually means: Substance that promotes secretion release.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. secretagogue: Merriam-Webster
  2. secretagogue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. secretagogue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. secretagogue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. secretagogue: Wordnik
  6. secretagogue: Wiktionary
  7. secretagogue: Dictionary.com
  8. Secretagogue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. secretagogue: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. secretagogue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. secretagogue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Secretagogue: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. secretagogue: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (secretagogue)

▸ noun:  (physiology, medicine) A substance which promotes secretion of another, such as a hormone (e.g., insulin), saliva, or lymph.

Similar:
secretogen, secernent, sialagogue, sialogogue, salivator, antisialagogue, salivant, stimulant, phagostimulant, ptyalogogue, more...

Phrases:
Growth hormone secretagogue receptor, Growth hormone secretagogue, more...

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Similar:
secretogen, secernent, sialagogue, sialogogue, salivator, antisialagogue, salivant, stimulant, phagostimulant, ptyalogogue, more...

Phrases:
Growth hormone secretagogue receptor, Growth hormone secretagogue, more...



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