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alpha-adrenergic receptor

 
Noun alpha-adrenergic receptor has 1 sense
  1. alpha receptor, alpha-adrenergic receptor, alpha-adrenoceptor - receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles)
    --1 is a kind of receptor
    --1 is a part of sympathetic nervous system
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