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endocannabinoid

endocannabinoid noun: an endogenous cannabinoid, i.e. one produced by the body.

Noun

endocannabinoid (plural endocannabinoids)

  1. An endogenous cannabinoid, i.e. one produced by the body.
    • When their endocannabinoid system was turned off, the animals ended their runs just as anxious and twitchy as they had been at the start, suggesting that they had felt no runner’s high.2021 March 10, Gretchen Reynolds, “Getting to the Bottom of the Runner’s High”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of endocannabinoid

pluralendocannabinoids

Origin of endocannabinoid

From endo- + cannabinoid.

Questions about endocannabinoid

What does endocannabinoid mean?
Endocannabinoid means an endogenous cannabinoid, i.e. one produced by the body.
What part of speech is endocannabinoid?
Endocannabinoid is a noun.
What is the plural of endocannabinoid?
The plural of endocannabinoid is endocannabinoids.

Words near endocannabinoid in the dictionary

  1. endocan
  2. endocanabinoid
  3. endocanalar
  4. endocanalicular
  5. endocannabinergic
  6. endocannabinoid
  7. endocannabinoidergic
  8. endocannabinoids
  9. endocannibal
  10. endocannibalism
  11. endocannibalistic

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