hepcidin
C2CEFR level
99/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A hepatic peptide hormone that is the master regulator of iron homeostasis by controlling ferroportin-mediated iron export.
Inflammatory states raise hepcidin, sequestering iron and producing the anaemia of chronic disease.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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