NEUROCHEMICAL

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Meaning:

Any organic substance that occurs in neural activity

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("neurochemical" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neurochemical"):

neurotransmitter (a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse)

endorphin (a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties)