Anticholinergics
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anticholinergic
n.
agent that inhibits the activity of acetylcholine within the parasympathetic nervous system (Medicine)
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Anticholinergic
An anticholinergic agent is a member of a class of
pharmaceutical
compounds (such as Dicyclomine) which serve to reduce the effects mediated by
acetylcholine
in the central nervous system and
peripheral nervous system
.Anticholinergics are typically reversible
competitive inhibitors
of one of the two types of acetylcholine
receptors
, and are classified according to the receptors that are affected:
antimuscarinic
agents operate on the
muscarinic acetylcholine receptors
. (The majority of anticholinergics are antimuscarinics.)
antinicotinic
agents operate on the
nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
.
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Anticholinergics
Anticholinergic /an·ti·cho·lin·er·gic/ parasympatholytic ; blocking the passage of impulses through the parasympathetic nerves; also, an agent that [
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