endorphin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɛnˈdɔːfɪn/    美 /ɛnˈdɔ(ɹ)fɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a group of peptide hormones found in the mammalian brain that act as neurotransmitters and have properties similar to morphine.
    — The explanation for the depression-reducing effects of exercise that clearly has been the most popular with the media is the endorphin hypothesis (see Hoffmann, 1997), which has also been discussed as a possible explanation in nearly every exercise-depression literature review.

词形变化

endorphins plural

词源

Borrowed from French endorphine, from endo(gène) (“endogenous, produced within”) and morphine.
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