As nouns the difference between taxonomy and catecholamine
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while catecholamine is catecholamine.
taxonomy
Noun
(taxonomies)
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
* alpha taxonomy
Derived terms
* folk taxonomy
* scientific taxonomy
See also
* classification
* rank
* taxon
* domain
* kingdom
* subkingdom
* superphylum
* phylum
* subphylum
* class
* subclass
* infraclass
* superorder
* order
* suborder
* infraorder
* parvorder
* superfamily
* family
* subfamily
* genus
* species
* subspecies
* superregnum
* regnum
* subregnum
* superphylum
* phylum
* subphylum
* classis
* subclassis
* infraclassis
* superordo
* ordo
* subordo
* infraordo
* taxon
* superfamilia
* familia
* subfamilia
* ontology
catecholamine
Noun
(
en noun)
(biochemistry) Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
*1988 , Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry , 3rd edition, p. 1025:
*:Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 746:
*:The catecholamines are used in several motivational and emotional systems of the brain, and their concentration is regulated by proteins that break them down or recycle them.
Hypernyms
*benzenediol
Hyponyms
* adrenalone
* arbutamine
* cysteinyldopa
* deoxyepinephrine
* dopamine
* dopexamine
* epinephrine
* hexoprenaline
* isoprenaline
* methyldopa
* nordefrin
* norepinephrine
* oxidopamine
See also
Related terms
*catecholaminergic
