A hormone produced by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth and function of the ovaries or testes; the American spelling of gonadotrophin.
From gonad (Greek gonos 'seed') + tropin (from Greek tropē 'turning toward'). The term was coined in the early 1900s as endocrinology developed as a scientific field.
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is what pregnancy tests detect—it's the hormone your body makes after conception, making it one of the most commercially important hormones in the world!
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