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anxiogenic

adj

Etymology

From anxio- + -genic.

Definitions

  1. Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety.

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

  2. An anxiogenic drug

    An anxiogenic drug: a drug that causes anxiety.

The neighborhood

  • antonymanxiolyticantonym(s) of “causing anxiety”

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