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The hormone that builds the nursery before anyone's even moved in.
means A steroid hormone made mainly in the ovaries that prepares and maintains the uterine lining for pregnancy and helps sustain it once established.
from Coined in the 1930s by chemists as a blend of 'pro-' (for, favoring) plus 'gest(ation)' plus the chemical suffix '-one' used for ketones and steroids — literally 'the hormone that favors gestation.' It was named at a time when several sex hormones were being isolated and christened in quick succession, each name a small chemistry-lab announcement of what the molecule did.
- name origin
- Literally means pro-gestation steroid
- made by
- Corpus luteum, the ovary's temporary pop-up gland
- mood role
- Breaks down into a natural sedative in the brain
- pregnancy job
- Keeps the uterus calm so it does not evict the fetus