Anxiogenic

Quick meaning: Anxiogenic is an adjective meaning (pharmacology) Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety.

Meaning

(pharmacology) Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety.

More Meanings

1. An anxiogenic drug: a drug that causes anxiety.

Example Sentences

A CRF antagonist, -helical CRF(9-41), can also attenuate the anxiogenic behavioral effects of HU-210.

Thus, self-directed behavior increases after anxiogenic drug treatment but decreases after anxiolytic drug treatment (29 ).

Central injection of substance P or related peptide agonists induces conditioned place aversion and produces an anxiogenic profile on the elevated plus maze, implying that activation of central substance P pathways is aversive (5 ).

This piece will perform a micro-excavation of these toplayers of the literary soil to suggest anxiogenic literature has the potential not only to adumbrate the post-apocalypse, a common theme in contemporary literature, but also to anticipate the post-Anthropocene.

Word Forms

• anxiogenics

Antonyms for anxiogenic

Common opposites include anxiolytic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anxiometric, anxious, agonic, anesthesiologic, anesthesiological, asphyxiative.

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