Steroid

Definition

steroid /'sterↄÇd,'stÇǝrↄÇd/ n ( chemistry ) ေဟာ္မုန္း၊ ဗီတာမင္ စသည္ကဲ့သို႔ ကိုယ္ခႏၶာမွ သဘာဝအေလ်ာက္ ထုတ္လုပ္ေပးေသာ ဓာတု ျဒပ္ေပါင္းမ်ဳိး။

Examples

1. ‘It is an important part of a healthy body
2. being a building block for steroids such as the sex hormones
3. and the hormones of the adrenal cortex.’
4. ‘One of the steroids it produces is cortisol
5. which increases the supply of glucose in the blood.’
6. ‘So far
7. all the sex pheromones found in fish have turned out to be steroids and prostaglandins.’
8. ‘Vitamin D is a steroid produced in the skin through a reaction between cholesterol and sunlight.’
9. ‘Little is known about the steroids associated with these structures in hagfish.’
10. ‘When someone is taking steroids
11. he can lift hard one day
12. then come back and lift the next.’
13. ‘All but four contained steroids
14. which in 14 cases were classified as potent or very potent.’
15. ‘Obviously testosterone levels also deplete and once you stop using steroids it can take a long time to get back to normal.’
16. ‘First there were the highly publicized congressional hearings on steroids in professional baseball.’
17. ‘This is not caused by an over use of steroids but by a growth or tumour on her pituitary gland.’
18. ‘I contend that players were caught with steroids that had been in their bodies for a while.’
19. ‘He very quickly began to inject steroids
20. as he later admitted.’
21. ‘The commissioner's policy bans the use of steroids at the major league level.’
22. ‘Detecting successive generations of designer steroids will require a different type of sleuthing.’
23. ‘Top sluggers are adding muscle and bulk by taking steroids and growth hormone.’
24. ‘Well
25. this has a lot of eyes on Major League Baseball and its policy about drug testing and steroids.’
26. ‘If he has a poor spring
27. some will doubt he even belongs in the big leagues without steroids.’
28. ‘Players will be tested for steroids at least twice a season
29. including one random test.’
30. ‘He took
31. supposedly or allegedly
32. this designer steroid that helped him run faster.’
33. ‘Come up with a plan that gets guys off steroids and levels the playing field.’