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enkephalins

enkephalins is the plural 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

Questions about enkephalins

What is enkephalins the plural of?
Enkephalins is the plural of enkephalin.

Words near enkephalins in the dictionary

  1. enkephalinase
  2. enkephalinases
  3. enkephaline
  4. enkephalinergic
  5. enkephalines
  6. enkephalins
  7. enkernel
  8. enkerneled
  9. enkerneling
  10. enkernelled
  11. enkernelling

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