pregnanediol

pregnanediol
5β-Pregnane-3α,20α-diol; the chief steroid metabolite of progesterone that is biologically inactive and occurs as p. glucuronate in the urine.

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preg·nane·di·ol -'dī-.ȯl n a biologically inactive crystalline dihydroxy derivative C21H36O2 of pregnane that is formed by reduction of progesterone and is found esp. in the urine of pregnant women in the form of its glucuronide

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n.
a steroid that is formed during the metabolism of the female sex hormone progesterone. It occurs in the urine during pregnancy and certain phases of the menstrual cycle.

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preg·nane·di·ol (preg″nān-diґol) any of several biologically inactive dihydroxy derivatives of progesterone; pregnanediols are metabolic degradation products, found especially in urine of women during pregnancy or the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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