ecdysiotropic en · ADJ
Etymology
From ecdysis + -tropic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That promotes moulting.
Ovarian ecdysiotropic hormones, a testes ecdysiotropin, and ecdysiostatins produced by neurosecretory cells of the brain modulate ecdysteroid production by these organs.
2010, Marc J Klowden, Physiological Systems in Insects, page 29: