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endorphinergic

endorphinergic adjective: produced or activated by an endorphin.

Adjective

endorphinergic (comparative more endorphinergic, superlative most endorphinergic)

  1. Produced or activated by an endorphin.
    • The opiate antagonist naloxone blocks both stimulation-produced analgesia from brain stimulation and analgesia from stimulation of acupuncture points, thus suggesting that a descending pain system able to inhibit pain perception can be associated with the endorphinergic pathway in the brain and...2015 July 7, Antonietta Santoro et al., “Auricular Acupressure Can Modulate Pain Threshold”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI

Forms of endorphinergic

comparativemore endorphinergic
superlativemost endorphinergic

Origin of endorphinergic

From endorphin + -ergic.

Questions about endorphinergic

What does endorphinergic mean?
Endorphinergic means produced or activated by an endorphin.
What part of speech is endorphinergic?
Endorphinergic is an adjective.

Words near endorphinergic in the dictionary

  1. endornavirus
  2. endornaviruses
  3. endorotation
  4. endorotations
  5. endorphin
  6. endorphinergic
  7. endorphins
  8. endorreic
  9. endorrhoeic
  10. endorsability
  11. endorsable

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