Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vagotropic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vagotrop-ic
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Stimulating the vagus nerve.

Example Sentences

"Capelle and Bayer believe that both the thyroid gland and the thymus gland produce an internal secretion that has two components, one sympathicotropic and one vagotropic."
"These “vagotropic” actions can be referred to decreased irritability of the sympathetic nerve-endings."
"This corresponds, as the authors stress, with our law since the epileptics are, after attacks, in a vagotonic situation; they therefore respond less to vagotropic stimuli."

Etymology

From vagus + -tropic.

Inflected Forms

more vagotropic (comparative) most vagotropic (superlative)

Rhymes With

topic microscopic philanthropic tropic telescopic spectroscopic macroscopic ectopic endoscopic myopic psychotropic atopic

Questions

What does vagotropic mean?: Stimulating the vagus nerve.
Where does vagotropic come from?: From vagus + -tropic.

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