Crossword clues for anticholinergic
anticholinergic
Wiktionary
a. That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site n. (context medicine English) 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
WordNet
adj. inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site; "anticholinergic drugs" [ant: cholinergic]
n. a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine [syn: anticholinergic drug]
Wikipedia
An anticholinergic agent is a substance that blocks the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the central and the peripheral nervous system. Anticholinergics inhibit parasympathetic nerve impulses by selectively blocking the binding of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to its receptor in nerve cells. The nerve fibers of the parasympathetic system are responsible for the involuntary movement of smooth muscles present in the gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, lungs, and many other parts of the body. Anticholinergics are divided into three categories in accordance with their specific targets in the central and/or peripheral nervous system: antimuscarinic agents, ganglionic blockers, and neuromuscular blockers.
Usage examples of "anticholinergic".
They also exert potent anticholinergic, adrenolytic, antihistaminic, and antiserotonergic activity.
A detail man had been there and had left some samples of a new anticholinergic, with accompanying literature.
Anyway, her research was a detailed description of how the anticholinergics were used for social control.
Which is another important point: Anticholinergics destroy the memory.
But you can get anticholinergics over the counter, if that's what you're asking - sleep remedies and decongestants.
Many of the organic anti-Parkinsonian agents contain anticholinergics.
Seems James Cadmus has been systematically poisoned with anticholinergics.
Not only was it subtle, but there was an added benefit: seems Thorazine and the other medicines you gave him supercharged the anticholinergics.
When his body was free of anticholinergics, the antipsychotics did their job properly.
I've asked the doctors at County General to run some lab tests to verify this, but I believe he was poisoned with a class of drugs called anticholinergics.
Your knowledge of organic anticholinergics enabled you to pick drugs and mix them to evoke exactly the type of symptom you wanted -agitation one day, depression the next.
Meanwhile, Mainwaring was treating what he thought was schizophrenia with phenothiazines, which, when combined with the anticholinergics, toxified Jamey's nervous system further.
Briefer pieces dealt with anticholinergic syndrome in the elderly - old people misdiagnosed as senile because of drug-induced psychosis - the fine points of occupational therapy, the hospital pharmacy, and a new eating disorders programme.