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hormonally

hormonally

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By chemicals in the body that control growth and mood
  • adverb
  • /hɔrˈmoʊnəli/
: hormonalmente
  • Many teenagers experience changes in their mood hormonally as they go through puberty.
  • hormonally active
  • hormonally charged
  • hormonally driven

But the second thing is actually a practice that is so hormonally disruptive to women and men, and that is snacking.

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Examples

  • She's looking forward to proving how hormonally balanced she is.

  • So that means that you specialize in hormones is that it starts to paint a picture that obesity may be a hormonally mediated disease.

  • Okay, so, hormonally, we are just completely different creatures.

  • It's highly hormonally regulated, connected to so many incredibly important systems.

  • Firstly, what we found is that the benefit of sex with orgasm on sleep is hormonally related.

  • There are grounds for thinking that women may be less 'hormonally reactive' when it comes to financial risk-taking.

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  • Women are hormonally programmed to carry more fat reserves so that if we are pregnant or nursing a baby when famine strikes, mother and child are more likely to survive.

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  • At least some aspects of sex-role reversal in spotted sandpipers are hormonally moderated.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The LIFE study, which also involves men, is investigating how exposure to a variety of endocrine-disrupting compounds affects hormonally driven issues such as semen quality, time to pregnancy, infertility, pregnancy loss, gestation duration, and birth size.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Excessive stress can hormonally affect your body's ability to cope with challenges.

Surface Forms

hormonally positive

Morphology

hormonally = hormonal (transparent) = hormone + al + ly

Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'hormonal' by adding the productive suffix '-ly'.

Etymology

The word hormonally comes from hormone, which comes from the Greek root horm- meaning 'to set in motion' or 'to excite'. So, something that happens hormonally is caused or changed by the body's chemical messengers that 'move' or control processes inside you.