NOUN
- a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine
ADJECTIVE
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inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site
anticholinergic drugs
How To Use anticholinergic In A Sentence
- Both antihistamines and anticholinergics can have anticholinergic side effects, including dry mouth, urinary retention, blurred vision, and exacerbation of narrow-angle glaucoma.
- Anticholinergics have been used in an attempt to decrease gastric secretions and increase pH. As with the use of nasogastric tubes, anticholinergics do not decrease hospital stay or pain.
- He found that the psychotomimetic ingredient in all of them was some kind of anticholinergic alkaloid—very similar to atropine and scopolamine. Over the Edge
- Dry mouth, which can be brought on by neuroleptics, antidepressants, and anticholinergics, may worsen the problem.
- Thus, in 1914, anticholinergics by injection or inhalation were considered as first-line asthma therapies.
- The administration of antihypertensive and anticholinergic medications also impairs salivary functions and promotes xerostomia.
- Its anticholinergic ancestor, ipratropium or Atrovent was taken twice a day. Spiriva and Stroke-FDA's warning may be too much (or too soon) information
- Scopolamine and hyoscyamine are most concentrated in the seeds and can cause anticholinergic poisoning in exposed persons.
- Elderly patients should not be treated with tertiary amines because of the greater anticholinergic effects of these agents.
- They dismiss conventional medical treatment with anticholinergic drugs as inconvenient, unpleasant, and temporary, and they say that patients usually stop using anticholinergic drugs because of a dry mouth.