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antimuscarinic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.08 in modern English

Syllables
an-timus-carinic
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That disrupts the action of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, and/or of muscarine itself, in the nervous system.

noun

An antimuscarinic drug.

Etymology

From anti- + muscarinic.

Inflected Forms

more antimuscarinic (comparative) most antimuscarinic (superlative) antimuscarinics (plural)

Rhymes With

clinic cynic rabbinic nicotinic monoclinic muscarinic finnick polyclinic minnick succinic actinic finnic

Questions

What does antimuscarinic mean?
That disrupts the action of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, and/or of muscarine itself, in the nervous system.
Where does antimuscarinic come from?
From anti- + muscarinic.

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