Usually means: Substance that activates physiological receptors.
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  1. agonist: Merriam-Webster
  2. agonist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agonist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agonist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. agonist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Agonist, agonist: Wordnik
  7. agonist: Wiktionary
  8. agonist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. agonist: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. agonist: Dictionary.com
  11. Agonist (disambiguation), Agonist (muscle), Agonist, The Agonist, The agonist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Agonist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. agonist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. agonist: Rhymezone
  15. Agonist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. agonist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. agonist: FreeDictionary.org
  18. agonist: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. agonist: Merriam-Webster

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  1. agonist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. agonist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Agonist: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Agonist: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
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  9. agonist: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
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  11. agonist: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  15. Agonist: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. agonist: A Word A Day

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  2. Agonist: Medicinal Chemistry

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Definitions from Wiktionary (agonist)

▸ noun:  Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
▸ noun:  The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
▸ noun:  (biochemistry, pharmacology) A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.

Similar:
agonistes, agonistarch, contendent, agonizer, encounterer, tritagonist, deuteragonist, competitor, contender, contestant, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, opponent, adversary, rival

Types:
muscle, joint, tendon, ligament, bone, more...

Phrases:
receptor agonist, Partial agonist, Adrenergic agonist, Dopamine agonist, opioid agonist, more...

Adjectives:
partial, adrenergic, selective, potent, acting, releasing, full, muscarinic, adrenoceptor, specific, weak

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Similar:
agonistes, agonistarch, contendent, agonizer, encounterer, tritagonist, deuteragonist, competitor, contender, contestant, more...

Opposite:
antagonist, opponent, adversary, rival

Types:
muscle, joint, tendon, ligament, bone, more...

Phrases:
receptor agonist, Partial agonist, Adrenergic agonist, Dopamine agonist, opioid agonist, Inverse agonist, lhrh agonist, cholinergic agonist, Muscarinic agonist, beta agonist, agonist muscle, alpha agonist, more...

Adjectives:
partial, adrenergic, selective, potent, acting, releasing, full, muscarinic, adrenoceptor, specific, weak

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy, more...



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