The head of a Roman snail, four tentacles well visible. [RN] Observing a snail crawling around, the view is immediately attracted by its head, orienting itself in its surroundings using the tentacles. The snail feels its environment, touches an obstacle and withdraws the tentacle.
One of these hormones is epinephrine, which can be defined as a hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to short-term stress. Epinephrine is also called adrenaline, and you may have heard of this term before.
Epinephrine is simply another name for adrenaline, which is one of the basic stress hormones in the body. Essentially it regulates our stress response, the âfight or fleeâ reaction. Epinephrine and Adrenaline are basically two words for the same hormone.