lipotropin
[ lip-uh-troh-pin, lahy-puh- ]
nounBiochemistry.
a large polypeptide of the pituitary gland from which endorphins and other endogenous opiates are thought to derive.
Origin of lipotropin
1First recorded in 1960–65; lipotrop(ic) + -in2
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