| growth factor |
a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth
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| growth hormone-releasing factor |
a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body
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| growth-onset diabetes |
type I diabetes: severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
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| growth |
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" increase: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" emergence: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
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| growth hormone |
somatotropin: a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans
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