noradrenaline

Questions about noradrenaline

What does noradrenaline mean?

noradrenaline means "a catecholamine precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses".

How many syllables are in noradrenaline?

noradrenaline has 5 syllables and divides as no-ra-dre-na-line under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for noradrenaline?

Close synonyms include norepinephrine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is noradrenaline a common word?

noradrenaline 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.