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Target or point in receiving injection of hard brain chemical
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endorphin
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Endorphin is a dynamic motion synthesis software package developed by NaturalMotion . Endorphin can be used to generate computer simulations of large numbers of independent characters interacting with each other and the world according to brief scripts ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biochemistry English) Any of a group of peptide hormones found in the brain that act as neurotransmitters and have properties similar to morphine.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Naltrexone keeps heroin from activating endorphin receptors, without activating them itself. ▪ They may also enhance endorphin release.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"chemical which occurs naturally in the brain and works like morphine," 1975, from French endorphine . First element from endogène "endogenous, growing within" (see endo- + genus ); second element from morphine .
Usage examples of endorphin.
And he found itjoy without intermediary, a jolt of endorphins without side effects.
It is very likely that the normal human body generates substances perhaps including the morphine-like small brain proteins called endorphins that cause hallucinations, and others that suppress them.
Conceivably, endorphins -the small brain proteins with morphine-like effects - can be elicited by belief.
I ignored it, washed it away with adrenalin and endorphins and the rhythm of breath and blood and bone.
HealthGuard all the time: cortisol, adrenaline, endorphins, prostaglandins.
It contained enough pain suppressors, coagulators, and stim boosters (most of them straight from the controlled substances list) to keep a dead man on his feet, not to mention an ultra-sophisticated endorphin generator and at least three drugs Okanami had never even heard of.
It contained enough pain suppressers, coagulators, and stim boosters (most of them straight from the controlled substances list) to keep a dead man on his feet, not to mention an ultra-sophisticated endorphin generator and at least three drugs Okanami had never even heard of.
I'd done what needed doing, dutifully jogging a mile and a half down the bike path and a mile and a half back, but I'd never developed any rhythm and the much-sought-after endorphin rush had failed to materialize.
Manfred mumbles incoherently: "A mass of propagating decision trees, fractal compression, lots of synaptic junctions lubricated with friendly endorphins –" Across the room, the bootleg pharmacopoeia is cranking up to manufacture some heavy tranquilizers.
A large chunk of my sense of identity was configured around this key idea that I wasn’t solitary: that I was part of a group, that we’d collectively adjusted our neuroendocrinology so that just being around the others gave us a mild endorphin rush—what used to be a haphazard process called “falling in love”—and we’d focused on complementary interests and skills and vocations.
And a long list of neurotransmitters present in only one blood panel: taurine, neurotensin, tryptamine, AMP, glycine, adenosine, and every endorphin and peptide in the book.
The best-known of these peptides are those sometimes described as the body's natural pain-killers, the morphine-like family of the opioids, such as enkephalin and endorphin.
The Humans had discovered such chemicals at the root of placebo effects and called them endorphins.
Carrying tennis rackets and a hopper of balls, he walked first to the track, where he ran six miles and did push-ups, sit-ups, and crunches, to get his fix of endorphin.