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secosteroid
<chemistry> A compound derived from a steroid in which there has been a ring cleavage.

Steroids in which fission of one or more ring structures and concomitant addition of a hydrogen atom at each terminal group has occurred.

Origin: L. Seco, to cut, + steroid