endocannabinoid

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English

Etymology

From endo- +‎ cannabinoid.

Noun

endocannabinoid (plural endocannabinoids)

  1. An endogenous cannabinoid, i.e. one produced by the body.
    • 2021 March 10, Gretchen Reynolds, “Getting to the Bottom of the Runner’s High”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      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.

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