serotonin

See also: Serotonin and serótónín

English

Etymology

From sero- +‎ tone +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈtəʊnɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈtoʊnɪn/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

serotonin (countable and uncountable, plural serotonins)

1. (biochemistry) An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.

Abbreviations

• 5-HT

Synonyms

• 5-hydroxytryptamine

Derived terms

• selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
• serotonin-specific
• serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
• serotonin syndrome

 

Related terms

• serotonergic

Translations

the compound 5-hydroxytryptamine

• Arabic: سِيرُوتُونِين (ar) m (sīrūtūnīn)

  Hijazi Arabic: سيروتونين m (sīrōtōnīn)

• Asturian: serotonina f
• Belarusian: сератані́н m (sjeratanín)
• Catalan: serotonina f
• Czech: serotonin (cs) m
• Danish: serotonin
• Esperanto: serotonino
• Finnish: serotoniini (fi)
• French: sérotonine (fr) f
• Galician: serotonina f
• German: Serotonin (de) n
• Greek: σεροτονίνη (el) f (serotoníni)
• Hungarian: szerotonin (hu)
• Icelandic: serótónín n
• Indonesian: serotonin
• Italian: serotonina (it) f
• Japanese: セロトニン (serotonin)
• Korean: 세로토닌 (serotonin)
• Latvian: serotonīns m
• Polish: serotonina (pl) f
• Portuguese: serotonina (pt) f
• Romanian: serotonină (ro) f
• Russian: серотони́н (ru) m (serotonín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: серото̀нӣн m

  Roman: serotònīn (sh) m

• Spanish: serotonina (es) f
• Swedish: serotonin (sv)
• Thai: เซโรโทนิน, ซีโรโทนิน
• Turkish: serotonin (tr)
• Ukrainian: серотоні́н m (serotonín)

Further reading

• “serotonin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• serotonin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ironstone

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛrotonɪn]
• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛrotoniːn]

Noun

serotonin m inan

1. serotonin

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Romanization

serotonin

1. Rōmaji transcription of セロトニン

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /serotǒniːn/

Noun

serotònīn m (Cyrillic spelling серото̀нӣн)

1. (biochemistry) serotonin

Declension

Declension of serotonin

	singular
nominative	serotònīn
genitive	serotonína
dative	serotoninu
accusative	serotonin
vocative	serotonine
locative	serotoninu
instrumental	serotoninom