Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

histaminergic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: his-tamin-er-gic
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the effects of histamine at a receptor in an affected tissue.

Example Sentences

"The main interest of these results seems to me to lie in the fact that they provide new evidence in support of the importance of antidromic impulses in sensory nerves; the results suggest that these nerves produce dilatation under physiological conditions by liberating histamine. The adjective "histaminergic" is proposed for these nerves."

Etymology

From histamine + -ergic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: histamine

Inflected Forms

more histaminergic (comparative) most histaminergic (superlative)

Derived Forms

antihistaminergic nonhistaminergic

Questions

What does histaminergic mean?: Of or pertaining to the effects of histamine at a receptor in an affected tissue.
Where does histaminergic come from?: From histamine + -ergic.

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