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n. a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
Word Usage
"If I develop symptoms, I was planning on increasing my intake of foods that contain oestrogen ... but then a friend said that would be no different to HRT ... except I wouldn't know exactly how much I was taking ..."