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Anticholinergic vs Nonanticholinergic - What's the difference?

anticholinergic | nonanticholinergic |

As adjectives the difference between anticholinergic and nonanticholinergic

is that anticholinergic is that inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site while nonanticholinergic is not anticholinergic.

As a noun anticholinergic

is (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.

anticholinergic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That inhibits the physiological action of acetylcholine at a receptor site

    • Noun

    (wikipedia anticholinergic) (en 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

    • nonanticholinergic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not anticholinergic.