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histaminergic en · ADJ

Etymology

From histamine + -ergic.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to the effects of histamine at a receptor in an affected tissue.
   • The main interest of these results seems to me to lie in the fact that they provide new evidence in support of the importance of antidromic impulses in sensory nerves; the results suggest that these nerves produce dilatation under physiological conditions by liberating histamine. The adjective "histaminergic" is proposed for these nerves. 1936 May 12, J. H. Gaddum, “The Estimation of Histamine in Blood”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:

Forms

Deriveds

antihistaminergic · nonhistaminergic