Plural of chalone; multiple internal secretions or inhibitory substances produced by body tissues.
Plural form of 'chalone' (from Greek 'chalao'). Formed regularly with English plural '-es' suffix.
The existence of chalones as a plural shows early biochemistry researchers believed in multiple types of these regulation molecules—and they were right, though we now organize them differently.
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