anticholinergic
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English
Etymology
anti- + cholinergic
Adjective
anticholinergic (comparative more anticholinergic, superlative most anticholinergic)
- That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
Derived terms
Translations
inhibiting the action of acetylcholine
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Noun
anticholinergic (plural anticholinergics)
- (medicine) 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.
- 2022, Jerrold S. Meyer, Andrew M. Farrar, Dominik Biezonski, Jennifer R. Yates, editors, Psychopharmacology, Fourth edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
- 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 life-threatening.
Translations
any drug which inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site
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