Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Hydroelectricity. Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water.
Definition: Hormones. Hormones. Hormones are chemical substances that act like messenger molecules in the body. After being made in one part of the body, they travel to other parts of the body where they help control how cells and organs do their work. For example, insulin is a hormone that's made by the beta cells in the pancreas.
Hormones are chemicals produced in one. body organ and carried in the blood. stream to another organ, where they. cause functional activity or possibly a. change in a structure. Women manufacture a number of. hormones specific to them, particularly. during their childbearing years.