vagotropic

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English

Etymology

From vagus +‎ -tropic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vagotropic (comparative more vagotropic, superlative most vagotropic)

  1. Stimulating the vagus nerve.
    • 1916, Monographic Medicine, page 876:
      Capelle and Bayer believe that both the thyroid gland and the thymus gland produce an internal secretion that has two components, one sympathicotropic and one vagotropic.
    • 1921, Association for the Study of Internal Secretions, Endocrinology:
      These “vagotropic” actions can be referred to decreased irritability of the sympathetic nerve-endings.
    • 2014, Joseph Wilder, Stimulus and Response: The Law of Initial Value, page 227:
      This corresponds, as the authors stress, with our law since the epileptics are, after attacks, in a vagotonic situation; they therefore respond less to vagotropic stimuli.