cholinergic

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   releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound

   Antonymsanticholinergic

Questions about cholinergic

What does cholinergic mean?

cholinergic means "releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound".

How many syllables are in cholinergic?

cholinergic has 4 syllables: cho-li-ner-gic. The stress falls on "ner".

What is the opposite of cholinergic?

The recorded antonyms are anticholinergic.

Is cholinergic a common word?

cholinergic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.