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anticholinergic drug

NOUN
  1. a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine

How To Use anticholinergic drug In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • This agent crosses the blood-brain barrier and thereby reverses both central and peripheral effects of the abused anticholinergic drug.
  • Use of the anticholinergic drug atropine during tap-water iontophoresis sometimes is helpful, but extreme caution is necessary to avoid toxicity from atropine overdose.
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  • If these measures are not successful, an anticholinergic drug may control the pain.
  • He thought for a minute and added, ‘So, if we improve cognition by increasing acetylcholine, it makes sense that anticholinergic drugs can make dementia a lot worse.’
  • Although statistically significant, the differences between anticholinergic drugs and placebo were small, apart from the increased rate of dry mouth in patients receiving active treatment.
  • Older men with prostatic hypertrophy may benefit from alpha-blocker medications and should be watched for urinary retention if anticholinergic drugs are employed.
  • Examples of anticholinergic drugs include atropine and ipratropium (Atrovent).
  • The anticholinergic drug designed for administration by inhalation is ipratropium, which is designed to be poorly absorbed out of the lung. TheHorse.com News
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