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Definition of Parasympathetic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the parasympathetic nervous system.

2. Noun. Originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels.

Definition of Parasympathetic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the part of the autonomic nervous system that inhibits or opposes the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parasympathetic

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Medical Definition of Parasympathetic

1. Pertaining to a division of the autonomic nervous system. See: autonomic nervous system. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasympathetic

parasternal hernia parasternal line parasternal lymph nodes parastichies parastichy parastriate area parastriate cortex parastruma parasubiculum parasubstitution

parasubstitutions parasuicidal parasuicide parasuicides parasympathectomy parasympathetic (current term) parasympathetic ganglia parasympathetic nerve parasympathetic root of ciliary ganglion parasympatholytic

parasympatholytics parasympathomimetic parasympathomimetics parasympathotonia parasymplesite parasynapsis parasynovitis parasyntheses parasynthesis

Literary usage of Parasympathetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"This receives augmenter impulses from both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. Accordingly, its contractions are augmented both by epinephrin and ..."

2. Diseases of the nervous system by Herbert Campbell Thomson (1921)
"CHAPTER VI THE AUTONOMIC SYSTEM (SYMPATHETIC AND parasympathetic SYSTEMS) THE Autonomie (or Vegetative) System forms the nervous mechanism by which the ..."

3. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"THOSE drugs which act especially on the autonomic sympathetic or the sympathetic-parasympathetic systems are known as autonomic drugs. ..."

4. Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life by Norman B. Anderson, Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Barney Cohen (2004)
"Importantly, increased parasympathetic tone and acetylcholine (the primary parasympathetic neurotransmitter) have been shown to attenuate release of these ..."

5. The Pharmacology of Useful Drugs by Robert Anthony Hatcher, Martin Inventius Wilbert (1915)
"The function of the parasympathetic nerve to the intestine is mainly motor and that of the sympathetic is mainly inhibitory, as in the stomach, ..."

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