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hypercholinergic

hypercholinergic adjective: excessively cholinergic.

Adjective

hypercholinergic (not comparable)

  1. Excessively cholinergic
    • In P10-P40 animals, the question then arises as to whether the over-abundance of lamina X ChIns in L2 segments we observed and the increased number of C-boutons on SOD1 Mns are part of these compensatory mechanisms or whether this hypercholinergic state is detrimental for Mns and favors pathology...2015 August 26, “Age-Related Changes in Pre- and Postsynaptic Partners of the Cholinergic C-Boutons in Wild-Type and SOD1 G93A Lumbar Motoneurons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of hypercholinergic

From hyper- + cholinergic.

Questions about hypercholinergic

What does hypercholinergic mean?
Hypercholinergic means excessively cholinergic.
What part of speech is hypercholinergic?
Hypercholinergic is an adjective.

Words near hypercholinergic in the dictionary

  1. hypercholesterolaemics
  2. hypercholesterolemia
  3. hypercholesterolemias
  4. hypercholesterolemic
  5. hypercholesterolemics
  6. hypercholinergic
  7. hypercholosterolemia
  8. hyperchondria
  9. hyperchroism
  10. hyperchromasia
  11. hyperchromasias

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