dopamine

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Chemical structure of dopamine

Etymology

From DOPA (“dihydroxyphenylalanine”) +‎ -amine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊ.pə.miːn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.pəˌmin/

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Noun

dopamine (countable and uncountable, plural dopamines)

1. (biochemistry, pharmacology) A monoamine C₈H₁₁NO₂ that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.
   • 1988, Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025:

     Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.

   • 2017 December 12, Amy B Wang, “Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’”, in The Washington Post‎:

     “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

Synonyms

• DA

Hypernyms

• catecholamine
• phenethylamine

Derived terms

• dobutamine
• -dopa
• dopaminal
• dopamine dressing
• dopaminergic
• dopaminoceptive
• fenoldopam
• hydroxydopamine
• hyperdopamine
• -opamine
• polydopamine

Translations

neurotransmitter

Arabic: دُوبَامِين (ar) (dūbāmīn) Armenian: դոֆամին (hy) (dofamin) Azerbaijani: dopamin Basque: dopamina Belarusian: дафамін m (dafamin) Bengali: ডোপামিন (ḍōpamin) Bulgarian: допамин m (dopamin) Catalan: dopamina (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 多巴胺 (do1 baa1 on1) Mandarin: 多巴胺 (zh) (duōbā'àn) Czech: dopamin (cs) m Danish: dopamin c or n Dhivehi: ޑޯޕަމީން (ḍōpamīn̊) Dutch: dopamine (nl) f Esperanto: dopamino Estonian: dopamiin Finnish: dopamiini (fi) French: dopamine (fr) f Galician: dopamina (gl) f German: Dopamin (de) n Greek: ντοπαμίνη (el) f (ntopamíni) Hebrew: דּוֹפָּמִין m (dopamin) Hungarian: dopamin (hu) Icelandic: dópamín n Indonesian: dopamin Interlingua: dopamina Irish: dopaimín m Italian: dopamina (it) f Japanese: ドーパミン (ja) (dōpamin) Korean: 도파민 (dopamin) Latvian: dofamīns m Lithuanian: dopaminas m Macedonian: допамин m (dopamin) Malay: dopamin Malayalam: ഡോപാമിൻ (ḍōpāmiṉ) Marathi: डोपामिन (ḍopāmin) Norwegian: Bokmål: dopamin m or n Nynorsk: dopamin m or n Occitan: dopamina f Odia: ଡୋପାମିନ୍ (ḍopāmin) Persian: دوپامین Polish: dopamina (pl) f Portuguese: dopamina (pt) f Punjabi: ਡੋਪਾਮਾਇਨ (ḍopāmāina) Romanian: dopamină f Russian: дофами́н (ru) m (dofamín) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: допа̀мӣн m Roman: dopàmīn (sh) m Slovak: dopamín m Slovene: dopamin m Spanish: dopamina (es) f Sundanese: dopamin Swahili: dopamini Swedish: dopamin (sv) n Tagalog: dopamino Thai: โดพามีน (doo-paa-miin), โดปามีน (doo-bpaa-miin) Turkish: dopamin (tr) Ukrainian: дофамі́н m (dofamín) Welsh: dopamin m

See also

• norepinephrine

References

• “dopamine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dopamine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.pa.min/

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Noun

dopamine f (uncountable)

1. dopamine

References

• dopamine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

dopamine f

1. plural of dopamina

Anagrams

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