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NEUROCHEMICAL

Dictionary entry overview: What does neurochemical mean?

• NEUROCHEMICAL (noun)
The noun NEUROCHEMICAL has 1 sense:

1. any organic substance that occurs in neural activity

Familiarity information: NEUROCHEMICAL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NEUROCHEMICAL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any organic substance that occurs in neural activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("neurochemical" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neurochemical"):

neurotransmitter (transmits nerve impulses across a synapse)

endorphin (a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties)

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