anticholinergic
anticholinergic adjective: that inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
Adjective
anticholinergic (comparative more anticholinergic, superlative most anticholinergic)
- That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
Noun
anticholinergic (plural anticholinergics)
- Any of a class of drugs, typically used to treat various disorders and some forms of poisoning, which inhibit the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
- While the hallucinations produced by jimsonweed and other anticholinergics are frequently described as frightening or even “nightmarish,” the toxic anticholinergic syndrome caused by jimsonweed can include seizures, CNS depression, respiratory failure, and cardiac abnormalities, all of which can be...2022, Jerrold S. Meyer, Andrew M. Farrar, Dominik Biezonski, Jennifer R. Yates, editors, Psychopharmacology, Fourth edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63
Forms of anticholinergic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more anticholinergic |
| superlative | most anticholinergic |
| Noun | |
| plural | anticholinergics |
Origin of anticholinergic
From anti- + cholinergic.
Words formed from anticholinergic
Questions about anticholinergic
- What does anticholinergic mean?
- Anticholinergic means that inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
- What part of speech is anticholinergic?
- Anticholinergic can be an adjective or a noun.
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