opiorphin
English
Noun
opiorphin (countable and uncountable, plural opiorphins)
- (biochemistry) A painkilling chemical compound first isolated from human saliva. [from 21st c.]
- 2015, David Shaw, translating Giulia Enders, Gut, Scribe 2016, p. 21:
- Our saliva contains one painkiller that is stronger than morphine. It is called opiorphin, and was only discovered in 2006.
- 2015, David Shaw, translating Giulia Enders, Gut, Scribe 2016, p. 21: