Usually means: Protein, responds to adrenaline, regulates.
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  1. alpha-adrenergic receptor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Vocabulary.com
  3. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Dictionary.com
  4. Alpha-adrenergic receptor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Rhymezone
  6. alpha-adrenergic receptor: FreeDictionary.org
  7. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. alpha-adrenergic receptor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alpha-adrenergic receptor: Medical dictionary

(Note: See alpha-adrenergic_receptors as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (alpha-adrenergic receptor)

noun:  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)


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