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anticholinesterase
anticholinesterase An anticholinesterase is a drug that blocks the enzymes that normally break down acetylcholine.
An anticholinesterase is a drug that blocks the enzymes that normally break down acetylcholine. By slowing this breakdown, it increases acetylcholine activity at cholinergic synapses, affecting body systems such as muscles, the heart, the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts, the eye, and the central nervous system.