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n. - A medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect.

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  • Whereas the anticholinesterase compounds, which have high acute toxicity (and hence are highly hazardous to the applicator), are readily and rapidly degraded in nature,...
  • Bacq and Brown22 have more recently extended these observations to a series on artificial eserine analogues, and have found that the potentiating action on the response of...
  • The nerve gases that have been developed for warfare are known as "anticholinesterase agents."
  • Largely because the anticholinesterase nerve agents produce a unique and striking pattern of symptoms.
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