Associations to the word «Anticholinergic»

Wiktionary

ANTICHOLINERGIC, adjective. That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site
ANTICHOLINERGIC, noun. (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

Dictionary definition

ANTICHOLINERGIC, noun. A substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine.
ANTICHOLINERGIC, adjective. Inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site; "anticholinergic drugs".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope