sympatholyticadj.
/ˌsɪmpəθə(ʊ)ˈlɪtɪk/ Medicine.
Annulling or opposing the transmission of nerve impulses in the sympathetic system.
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sympathicolytic1947
sympatholytic1951
1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xii. 230 A number of dioxane derivatives have been..demonstrated to have an adrenolytic but not a sympatholytic action.
1954 Brit. Jrnl. Pharmacol. 9 236 The assay of sympatholytic (anti-adrenaline) drugs.
1961 Lancet 26 Aug. 475/1 Failures of wholly different origin are those due to administration of sympatholytic or ganglion-blocking drugs.
1977 Lancet 19 Mar. 650/2 The medical treatment of essential hypertension is currently based almost exclusively on sympatholytic drugs of one kind or another on the assumption that the disease is caused by over-activity of the sympathetic nervous system.
Derivatives
symˌpathicoˈlytic adj. in the same sense.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > drugs having specific effect > [adjective] > sympatholytic
sympathicolytic1947
sympatholytic1951
1947 Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med. 66 152/2 Dibenamine..is primarily a powerful adrenolytic, but a weak sympathicolytic agent.
1948 Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med. 67 298 Several sympathicolytic substances have mainly adrenolytic properties.
1952 Acta Endocrinol. IX. 116 The alarm reaction caused by adrenaline..can be counteracted by using a sympathicolytic agent.
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