adrenaline

See also: adrénaline, and adrenalinę

English

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adrenaline

Wikipedia

The chemical structure of adrenaline.

Alternative forms

• adrenalin

Etymology

From adrenal +‎ -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)

2. (biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
4. Excitement; thrills.

   Some people bungee jump to feel alive through the surge of adrenaline.

Derived terms

• adrenalined
• adrenaline junkie
• adrenalinergic
• adrenaline rush
• adrenaline sport
• adrenalinic
• adrenalinogenic
• adrenergic
• metadrenaline
• noradrenaline

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: adrenalina
• → Dutch: adrenaline
• → French: adrénaline
• → Spanish: adrenalina
• → Swahili: adrenalini

Translations

the compound epinephrine

Afrikaans: adrenalien (af) Albanian: adrenalina ? Arabic: أَدْرِينَالِين (ar) m (ʔadrīnālīn) Armenian: ադրենալին (hy) (adrenalin) Belarusian: адрэналі́н m (adrenalín) Catalan: adrenalina (ca) f, epinefrina f Chinese: Cantonese: 腎上腺素／肾上腺素 (san6 soeng6 sin3 sou3) Mandarin: 腎上腺素／肾上腺素 (zh) (shènshàngxiànsù) Czech: adrenalin (cs) m Danish: adrenalin c or n Dutch: adrenaline (nl) f Esperanto: adrenalino (eo) Finnish: adrenaliini (fi) French: adrénaline (fr) f Galician: adrenalina (gl) f German: Adrenalin (de) n Greek: αδρεναλίνη (el) f (adrenalíni) Hebrew: אדרנלין (he) m (adrenalín), אפינפרין (he) m (epinefrín) Hindi: एड्रेनालाईन ? (eḍrenālāīn) Hungarian: adrenalin (hu) Ido: adrenalino (io) Indonesian: adrenalin (id) Irish: aidréanailín m Italian: adrenalina (it) f Japanese: アドレナリン (ja) (adorenarin), エピネフリン (epinefurin) Korean: 아드레날린 (adeurenallin) Malay: adrenalina Maltese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: adrenalin (no) n Nynorsk: adrenalin n Polish: adrenalina (pl) f Portuguese: adrenalina (pt) f Romanian: adrenalină (ro) f Russian: адренали́н (ru) m (adrenalín) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: адрена̀лӣн m Roman: adrenàlīn (sh) m Slovak: adrenalín (sk) m inan, epinefrín m inan Slovene: adrenalin Spanish: adrenalina (es) f Swahili: adrenalini Swedish: adrenalin (sv) n Tagalog: adrenalina Thai: ฮอร์โมนเนื้อในต่อมหมวกไต Turkish: adrenalin (tr) Ukrainian: адреналі́н (uk) m (adrenalín) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Zulu: please add this translation if you can

excitement

Japanese: 脳汁 (ja) (nōjiru) Polish: adrenalina (pl) f

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English adrenaline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.dreː.naːˈli.nə/, /aː.dreː.naːˈli.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: adre‧na‧li‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

adrenaline f (uncountable)

1. adrenaline [from 1902]
   • 1902 June 28, "Adrenaline.", Algemeen Handelsblad, fol. 2, Vol. 75, No. 23391, page 6 (page 2 of fol. 2).

Italian

Noun

adrenaline f pl

1. plural of adrenalina