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Definition of Anticholinergic drug
1. Noun. A substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine.
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Specialized synonyms: Daricon, Oxyphencyclimine
Derivative terms: Anticholinergic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticholinergic Drug
Literary usage of Anticholinergic drug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction a Report of the Surgeon by C. Everett Koop, M.D., DIANE Publishing Company (1988)
"The anticholinergic drug atropine is another that is representative of a class
of drugs that occasionally are used in nontherapeutic settings but do not ..."
2. Review of the Department of Defense Research Program on Low-Level Exposures by Best, Committee on Toxicology, NetLibrary, Inc, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (2005)
"Thus, anticholinergic drug challenge under conditions of cholinergic receptor
down regulation can often elicit an exaggerated response. ..."
3. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"The deficit seen in the older macaques is more nearly simulated in young animals
by the administration of scopolamine, an anticholinergic drug, ..."
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