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noun
The parent hydrocarbon for a range of steroids including the progesterones
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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History
Etymology tree Latin praegnāns Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānusder. English -ane English pregnane From Latin praegnans + -ane, from praegnās, from prae- (“before”) + gnā- (the root of *gnāscor, an archaic form of nāscor (“be born”)).
