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From adrenal + -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.
adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)
- (biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
- Excitement; thrills.
Some people bungee jump to feel alive through the surge of adrenaline.
- → Catalan: adrenalina
- → Dutch: adrenaline
- → French: adrénaline
- → Spanish: adrenalina
- → Swahili: adrenalini
the compound epinephrine
- Afrikaans: adrenalien (af)
- Albanian: adrenalina ?
- Arabic: أَدْرِينَالِين (ar) m (ʔadrīnālīn)
- Armenian: ադրենալին (hy) (adrenalin)
- Belarusian: адрэналі́н m (adrenalín)
- Catalan: adrenalina (ca) f, epinefrina f
- Chinese:
- Czech: adrenalin (cs) m
- Danish: adrenalin c or n
- Dutch: adrenaline (nl) f
- Esperanto: adrenalino (eo)
- Finnish: adrenaliini (fi)
- French: adrénaline (fr) f
- Galician: adrenalina (gl) f
- German: Adrenalin (de) n
- Greek: αδρεναλίνη (el) f (adrenalíni)
- Hebrew: אדרנלין (he) m (adrenalín), אפינפרין (he) m (epinefrín)
- Hindi: एड्रेनालाईन ? (eḍrenālāīn)
- Hungarian: adrenalin (hu)
- Ido: adrenalino (io)
- Indonesian: adrenalin (id)
- Irish: aidréanailín m
- Italian: adrenalina (it) f
- Japanese: アドレナリン (ja) (adorenarin), エピネフリン (epinefurin)
- Korean: 아드레날린 (adeurenallin)
- Malay: adrenalina
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Polish: adrenalina (pl) f
- Portuguese: adrenalina (pt) f
- Romanian: adrenalină (ro) f
- Russian: адренали́н (ru) m (adrenalín)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: адрена̀лӣн m
- Roman: adrenàlīn (sh) m
- Slovak: adrenalín (sk) m inan, epinefrín m inan
- Slovene: adrenalin
- Spanish: adrenalina (es) f
- Swahili: adrenalini
- Swedish: adrenalin (sv) n
- Tagalog: adrenalina
- Thai: ฮอร์โมนเนื้อในต่อมหมวกไต
- Turkish: adrenalin (tr)
- Ukrainian: адреналі́н (uk) m (adrenalín)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
Borrowed from English adrenaline.
adrenaline f (uncountable)
- adrenaline [from 1902]
- 1902 June 28, "Adrenaline.", Algemeen Handelsblad, fol. 2, Vol. 75, No. 23391, page 6 (page 2 of fol. 2).
adrenaline f pl
- plural of adrenalina