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enkephaline

enkephaline 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 enkephaline

pluralenkephalines

Questions about enkephaline

What is enkephaline the alternative form of?
Enkephaline is the alternative form of enkephalin.

Words near enkephaline in the dictionary

  1. enkennelled
  2. enkennels
  3. enkephalin
  4. enkephalinase
  5. enkephalinases
  6. enkephaline
  7. enkephalinergic
  8. enkephalines
  9. enkephalins
  10. enkernel
  11. enkerneled

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