Term: epinephrine: a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action
Candidate hypernym: vasoconstrictor: any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure → 1
Candidate hypernym: postposition: (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) → 0
Candidate hypernym: midair: some point in the air; above ground level → 0
Candidate hypernym: sereness: a withered dryness → 0
Candidate hypernym: inventor: someone who is the first to think of or make something → 0
Candidate hypernym: barber: a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade → 0
Candidate hypernym: bedsore: a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hollowness: the property of having a sunken area → 0
Candidate hypernym: tellurian: an inhabitant of the earth → 0
Candidate hypernym: mourner: a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) → 0
Candidate hypernym: habanera: music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera → 0