Taber's Medical Dictionary
-tropin
[trop- + -in]
Suffix indicating the stimulating effect of a substance, esp. a hormone, on its target organ. The suffix -trophin is frequently used as a variant of -tropin even though the suffixes -trop and -troph are of different origins.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "-tropin." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/764650/all/_tropin.
-tropin. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/764650/all/_tropin. Accessed April 1, 2025.
-tropin. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/764650/all/_tropin
-tropin [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 01]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/764650/all/_tropin.
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