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NEUROCHEMICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurochemical mean? 

NEUROCHEMICAL (noun)
  The noun NEUROCHEMICAL has 1 sense:

1. any organic substance that occurs in neural activityplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NEUROCHEMICAL (noun)


Sense 1

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 (a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse)

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


 Context examples 


Astrocytes are thought to be responsible for disposing of excess neurochemicals at synapses, the connections between neurons.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

NMDA receptors are proteins that generate electrical signals in response to the neurochemicals glutamate and glycine.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)



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