vagotropic
English
Etymology
vagus + -tropic
- Stimulating the vagus nerve.
- 1916, Monographic Medicine, page 876:
- 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.
- 1921, Association for the Study of Internal Secretions, Endocrinology:
- These “vagotropic” actions can be referred to decreased irritability of the sympathetic nerve-endings.
- 2014, Joseph Wilder, Stimulus and Response: The Law of Initial Value, page 227:
- 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.