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do‧pa‧mine / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[doh-puh-meen] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
2.
Pharmacology. a dopamine preparation used to increase the force of contraction of the heart in the treatment of shock.
3.
An internationally respected party starter, with a serious talent for pushing new sounds. He’s into what he does and it shows – whether in the genuine loving he places in each carefully crafted track he produces or the personality we glimpse behind the decks; Matt Dopamine IS breakbeat.
Compare levodopa.
[Origin: 1955–60; see dopa, amine]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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