The peninsula of Anatolia lay on the commercial land routes to Europe from Asia as well as the sea route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Records from the 19th century BCE attest to the existence of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh in Cappadocia (now in modern Turkey).
Hormones. Hormones. chemical substances having a specific regulatory effect on the activity of a certain organ or organs. The term was originally applied to substances secreted by various endocrine glands and transported in the bloodstream to the target organs.
â¢ HORMONE (noun) The noun HORMONE has 1 sense: 1. the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect. Familiarity information: HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.