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vagotropic en · ADJ

Etymology

From vagus + -tropic.

Meanings

1. Stimulating the vagus nerve.
   • This corresponds, as the authors stress, with our law since the epileptics are, after attacks, in a vagotonic situation; they therefore respond less to vagotropic stimuli. 2014, Joseph Wilder, Stimulus and Response: The Law of Initial Value, page 227:
   • Capelle and Bayer believe that both the thyroid gland and the thymus gland produce an internal secretion that has two components, one sympathicotropic and one vagotropic. 1916, Monographic Medicine, page 876:
   • These “vagotropic” actions can be referred to decreased irritability of the sympathetic nerve-endings. 1921, Association for the Study of Internal Secretions, Endocrinology:

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