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noradrenalin

noradrenalin is the alternative form of noradrenaline.

Meaning of noradrenaline

Noun

noradrenaline (countable and uncountable, plural noradrenalines)

  1. (UK) Synonym of norepinephrine.
    • Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970).[…]Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate...1984, Stephen T. Mason, “Catecholamines and vegetative behaviour”, in Catecholamines and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Aggression”, page 333
    Synonyms:
    norepinephrine

Forms of noradrenalin

pluralnoradrenalins

Questions about noradrenalin

What is noradrenalin the alternative form of?
Noradrenalin is the alternative form of noradrenaline.

Words near noradrenalin in the dictionary

  1. norabietane
  2. norabietanes
  3. noracymethadol
  4. norad
  5. Noradjuha
  6. noradrenalin
  7. noradrenaline
  8. noradrenalinergic
  9. noradrenalines
  10. noradrenalins
  11. noradrenenergic

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