Definitions for endorphin

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endorphin en·dor·phin

Spelling: [en-dawr-fin]

IPA: /ɛnˈdɔr fɪn/

Endorphin is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in endorphin (dehinnopr).

Definitions for endorphin

noun

1. any of a group of peptides occurring in the brain and other tissues of vertebrates, and resembling opiates, that react with the brain's opiate receptors to raise the pain threshold.

Origin of endorphin

1970-75; end(ogenous) (m)orphine, with -ine respelled as -in²

Examples for endorphin

I woke disoriented and crabby, without my customary morning jolt of endorphin.