Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun melanocyte-stimulating_hormone

1 sense of melanocyte-stimulating hormone

Sense 1
melanocyte-stimulating hormone, MSH -- (a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes)
       => hormone, endocrine, internal secretion -- (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)