noradrenaline
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English
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Etymology
From nor- + adrenaline.
Pronunciation
Noun
noradrenaline (countable and uncountable, plural noradrenalines)
- (biochemistry, chiefly UK) Synonym of norepinephrine.
- 1984, Stephen T. Mason, “Catecholamines and vegetative behaviour”, in Catecholamines and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Aggression”, page 333:
- 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 predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).
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Translations
the compound norepinephrine — see also norepinephrine
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Noun
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