releasing factor   (TTS Sound)

The noun releasing factor has 2 senses

• releasing factor, releasing hormone, RF -- (a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland)


• releasing hormone, RH, releasing factor, hypothalamic releasing hormone, hypothalamic releasing factor -- (any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone)