anticholinergic

  1. Adjective.  That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) Any of a class of drugs, typically used to treat various disorders and some forms of poisoning, which inhibit the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site .

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