Hormone
erythropoietin Audio
e·ryth·ro·poi·e·tin [ ih-rith-roh-poi-i-tn, -poi-eet-n ]
Subclass of:
Colony-Stimulating Factors
Definitions related to erythropoietin:
  • A hormone that controls red blood cell production.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Glycoprotein hormone, secreted chiefly by the kidney in the adult and the liver in the fetus, that acts on erythroid stem cells of the bone marrow to stimulate proliferation and differentiation.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Erythropoietin testing, in combination with other tests, can be used to differentiate polycythemia vera from secondary polycythemia. It can also help differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate secondary polycythemia.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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