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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of a class of chemical compounds formed by substituting one or more alcohol radicals for the hydrogen in a single ammonia molecule. Monamines are primary, secondary, or tertiary, according as one, two, or three atoms of hydrogen are replaced.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A basic compound containing one amido group; a monoamine.

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  • noun Archaic form of monoamine.

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Examples

  • Alcohol preference in regional brain monamine contents of N/NIH heterogeneous stock rats, Alcohol and Drug Research 7 1986: 33-39.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Both the differences in the inhibition of monamine oxidase activity by ethanol and the differences in adenylate cyclase activity may be interpreted either as reflecting a response to long-term consumption of alcohol, or an inherent characteristic of persons with alcoholism.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Alcohol preference in regional brain monamine contents of N/NIH heterogeneous stock rats, Alcohol and Drug Research 7 1986: 33-39.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Both the differences in the inhibition of monamine oxidase activity by ethanol and the differences in adenylate cyclase activity may be interpreted either as reflecting a response to long-term consumption of alcohol, or an inherent characteristic of persons with alcoholism.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • My madness is caused by an irreversible inhibition of, the monamine oxidase (MAO) in my brain.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

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