catecholamine

English

Noun

Wikipedia catecholamine (plural catecholamines)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
   • 1988 —Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025

     Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.

Hypernyms

• benzenediol

Hyponyms

adrenalone arbutamine cysteinyldopa deoxyepinephrine dopamine dopexamine epinephrine

hexoprenaline isoprenaline methyldopa nordefrin norepinephrine oxidopamine

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Related terms

• catecholaminergic

Translations

any of a class of aromatic amines

Esperanto: katekolamino (eo) Finnish: katekoliamiini (fi) French: catécholamine (fr) f.

German: Katecholamine (de), Catecholamine (de) Italian: catecolamina (it) Spanish: catecolamina (es) f.