endorphin

English

Borrowed from French endorphine, from endo(gène) (“endogenous, produced within”) and morphine.

endorphin (plural endorphins)

(biochemistry) Any of a group of peptide hormones found in the mammalian brain that act as neurotransmitters and have properties similar to morphine.
- 2019, Curt L. Lox, Kathleen A. Martin Ginis, Heather L. Gainforth, Steven J. Petruzzello, The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice, Routledge, →ISBN:
  The explanation for the depression-reducing effects of exercise that clearly has been the most popular with the media is the endorphin hypothesis (see Hoffmann, 1997), which has also been discussed as a possible explanation in nearly every exercise-depression literature review.

any of a group of peptide hormones

Arabic: إِنْدُورْفِين m (ʔindūrfīn)
Catalan: endorfina f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腦內啡／脑内啡 (zh) (nǎonèifēi), 安多芬 (ānduōfēn), 內啡呔／内啡呔 (nèifēidāi)
Czech: endorfin (cs) m
Finnish: endorfiini
French: endorphine (fr) f
German: Endorphin (de) n
Greek: ενδορφίνη (el) f (endorfíni)
Hungarian: endorfin (hu)
Italian: endorfina (it) f
Japanese: エンドルフィン (endorufin)
Maori: taiaki whakahari
Polish: endorfina (pl) f
Portuguese: endorfina (pt) f
Russian: эндорфи́н (ru) m (endorfín)
Spanish: endorfina (es) f
Swedish: endorfin (sv) n
Turkish: endorfin
Vietnamese: endorphin (vi)