Meaning of sympatheticolytic | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C2]

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“Other pharmacologic actions include⟳ the cyanosis of the coxcomb, rather slight sympatheticolytic (epinephrine-reversal) action, slight rise⟳ in blood pressure, depression of frog’s heart, mydriasis in rabbits (M. E. Davis, Adair, Chen and Swanson, 1935).”

“Our own⟳ observations—particularly in those experiments in which marked variations of the electrocardiogram during the hot-air bath were reduced or disappeared after application of a sympatheticolytic drug—often showed typical sympatheticotonic variations during the pyrexia and vagotonic variations after its completion (Fig. 2).”

“At this time, the rationale for the use⟳ of ergotamine was that, contrary to the interpretation that had prevailed in earlier years, migraine headache depended on excessive rather than decreased sympathetic activity, and that ergotamine had a sympatheticolytic rather than a sympathomimetic effect.”

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