All 13 Uses
adrenaline
in
New Moon
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- Adrenaline, I realized, long absent from my system, drumming my pulse faster and fighting against the lack of sensation.†
Chpt 4adrenaline = “fight or flight” stimulating hormone
- It was strange—why the adrenaline when there was no fear?†
Chpt 4
- Whatever it was that had happened tonight—and whether it was the zombies, the adrenaline, or the hallucinations that were responsible—it had woken me up.†
Chpt 4
- ADRENALINE "OKAY, WHERE'S YOUR CLUTCH?†
Chpt 8
- There was no familiarity here—on a road I'd never seen, doing something I'd never done before—no deja vu So the hallucinations must be triggered by something else...I felt the adrenaline coursing through my veins again, and I thought I had the answer.†
Chpt 8
- Some combination of adrenaline and danger, or maybe just stupidity.†
Chpt 8
- I'd left my stomach back at the starting point; the adrenaline coursed through my body, tingling in my veins.†
Chpt 8
- This had to be it, the recipe for a hallucination—adrenaline plus clanger plus stupidity.†
Chpt 8
- If I couldn't have the bikes, I was going to have to find some other avenue to the danger and the adrenaline, and that was going to take serious thought and creativity.†
Chpt 8
- I racked my brain for other adrenaline-producing activities.†
Chpt 9
- Without Jacob, and my adrenaline and my distractions, everything I'd been repressing started creeping up on me.†
Chpt 10
- There was no adrenaline, no danger.
Chpt 11 *adrenaline = hormone released to help the body prepare for action ("fight or flight")
- I hadn't had one moment of terror—just pure adrenaline.†
Chpt 15adrenaline = “fight or flight” stimulating hormone
Definitions:
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(1)
(adrenaline) “fight or flight” stimulating hormone secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress (making the body feel excited and ready for action)Doctors are more likely to use the term epinephrine (possibly shortened to epi or EP). Adrenalin as a proper noun without the ending "e" is a trademark name for the same chemical.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)