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augmentor|ɔːgˈmɛntɔː(r)|
[f. augment v. + -or.]
1. var. augmenter.
2. Physiol. Applied to a nerve or nerve cell by the stimulation of which the cardiac contractions are increased. Also attrib.
1902Nature 6 Nov. 3 The anabolic inhibitory and the katabolic augmentor parts. 1907Practitioner Nov. 692 The imperfectly oxygenated blood has to be sent through the heart and other muscles oftener per minute than healthy blood; the augmentor nerve is, therefore, called into action.
3. A substance which increases the action of an auxetic substance although unable itself to initiate cell-division.
1915Stedman Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 90/2 Augmentor, a hypothetical substance supposed to increase the action of an auxetic or a kinetic. 1918J. A. Thomson in New Statesman 26 Jan. 400/1 The dying away in autumn and winter produces substances (‘auxetics’) which later on promote..an increasing quantity of certain other substances (‘augmentors’) which give more power to the elbow of the first. |