different between synthetic vs butyrylcholine

English

From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunthetikós).

synthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic)

Of, or relating to synthesis.
(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
Artificial, not genuine.
(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
(linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).

synthetic (plural synthetics)

butyryl +? choline

butyrylcholine (uncountable)

A synthetic acetylcholine-like molecule, with activation of some of the same receptors, which is hydrolysed by acetylcholinesterase and (more efficiently) by butyrylcholinesterase.

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