How to Use progesterone in a Sentence

progesterone

noun
Definition of progesteronenext
  • The patients will get two shots of progesterone a day for five days.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • First, there’s a rise in pregnenolone and progesterone.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 May 2022
  • This is due to an increase in progesterone levels in your body.
    — Anna Rahmanan, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The drug dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The first drug, mifepristone, blocks the effects of progesterone, a hormone without which the lining of the uterus begins to break down.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Michele started taking a high dose of progesterone to help her body sustain the pregnancy and stayed on bed rest.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus breaks down and the pregnancy cannot continue.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • In other words, a change in the amount of progesterone in the body can impact the way your intestines move waste through and out of your body, by either speeding the process up or slowing it down.
    — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 30 July 2020
  • The decrease in your body’s progesterone production can lead to restless nights, too.
    — Maria Del Russo, Woman's Day, 18 June 2020
  • First the patient takes a dose of mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone, to stop the pregnancy from growing.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That’s largely thanks to a hormone that helps prep your body for pregnancy called progesterone.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • These drugs block the body from producing estrogen and progesterone, which cause the uterine lining to build up.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • Progestin is a synthetic hormone that mimics the effects of progesterone in the body.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Like the Pill and the patch, the vaginal ring—a rubbery circle that looks a bit like a hair tie—works by blocking ovulation with estrogen and progesterone.
    — Emily Shiffer, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2022
  • This makes sense, since estrogen and progesterone levels are high, which can lead to bloating and fatigue.
    — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Without progesterone, the lining of the uterus breaks down and pregnancy cannot continue.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 19 May 2022
  • Mifepristone gets in the way of this process by blocking the receptors that progesterone would normally bind with.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • As a control, some were given a placebo instead of progesterone.
    — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Mifepristone, approved by the FDA in 2000, blocks the hormone progesterone and is also used to treat miscarriages.
    — Laura Ungar, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • During this time, the hormones estrogen and progesterone increase in the body and are usually to blame for bloating.
    — Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping, 28 Nov. 2020
  • During this time, the levels of the hormones estrogen, progesterone and testosterone start falling, which kicks off a wide range of symptoms.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The first pill, mifepristone, acts to block the body's ability to absorb progesterone, a hormone that allows the pregnancy to grow.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 7 May 2022
  • The first, mifepristone, blocks a hormone called progesterone.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • The drug works by blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Menopause usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55 as the body slowly produces less of the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • In 2018, Levin’s team attached a plastic cuff containing progesterone, a hormone that alters the behavior of ion channels, to the stump where a frog had once had a leg.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Mifepristone dilates the cervix and blocks the effects of the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy.
    — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Mifepristone is an oral drug that blocks a hormone called progesterone, which the body needs to continue a pregnancy.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 4 Mar. 2024
  • As our eggs dwindle, our estrogen and progesterone levels start to lower as well.
    — Kristin Auble, Vogue, 18 June 2024
  • Without progesterone, the uterus will expel its contents.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 June 2024

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