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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine That opposes the stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system
- n. medicine Any medicine having this effect
Etymologies
- sympath(etic) + -lytic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Action sympatholytic agents (bretylium tosilate guanethidine) gastro-intestinal tract sheep goats”
“As an adjuvant in sympatholytic blocks it has a targeted action without significant neuropsychiatric side effects.”
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