enkephalin

1. 1.

   an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere

   Broaderendorphin

Other forms of enkephalin

plural

enkephalins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enkephalin

What does enkephalin mean?

enkephalin means "an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere".

How many syllables are in enkephalin?

enkephalin has 4 syllables: en-ke-pha-lin. The stress falls on "ke".

Is enkephalin a common word?

enkephalin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.