parasympatheticolytic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "Drugs used were hydergine, a sympatheticolytic and vasodilator combination of dihydroergocornine, dihydroergocristine and dihydroergokryptine, and bellergal, a combination of a parasympatheticolytic bellafoline, a sympatheticolytic ergotamine tartrate and a sedative phenobarbitone."
- "It is our interpretation that this is probably due to a parasympatheticolytic effect of alcohol."
- "There is an occasionally important depression, and considerable drowsiness, and a parasympatheticolytic effect apparently relative to norepinephrine depletion."
- "Also, one cannot get the full effect without other systemic symptoms ranging from tachycardia for the sympatheticomimetics to dryness of the mouth in the case of the parasympatheticolytics."
- "Thus, it has been eventually possible, as well, to direct and give ground to their therapy and prophylaxis, decreasing vagal hyperreflexia by means of parasympatheticolytics; to decrease the duration and effect of cerebral anoxias by means of the Trendelemburg^([sic]) position; to eliminate stimulating cardio-inhibitory vagal reflexogenic factors: intestinal parasites, suppositories, enemas, nasal or auricular instillations; to correct inadecuate^([sic]) psychological stimuli in hypervagotonic children by means of psychopedagogy and psychotherapy."
- "Flemming (1954) found, after instillation of drugs into the conjunctival sac, that sympathetico-memetics and parasympatheticolytics increase the flicker frequency, while parasympathetico-memetics and sympatheticolytics reduce it. (Alpern and Jampel, 1959)."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more parasympatheticolytic (comparative)
most parasympatheticolytic (superlative)
parasympatheticolytics (plural)