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encephalin

encephalin is the alternative form of enkephalin.

Meaning of enkephalin

Noun

enkephalin (plural enkephalins)

  1. Any of a group of pentapeptide endorphins that have opiate-like effects
    • Some of the more marginal players start in as early as maybe twelve, I'm sorry to say, particularly 'drines before matches and then enkephaline after […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 67

Forms of encephalin

pluralencephalins

Questions about encephalin

What is encephalin the alternative form of?
Encephalin is the alternative form of enkephalin.

Words near encephalin in the dictionary

  1. encephalectomy
  2. encephaledema
  3. encephaledemas
  4. encephalemia
  5. encephalic
  6. encephalin
  7. encephalins
  8. encephalisation
  9. encephalise
  10. encephalised
  11. encephalises

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