agonist

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
  2. The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
    — When bending the elbow, the biceps is the agonist.
  3. A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
    — Acetylcholine is an agonist at the cholinergic receptor.

词形变化

agonists plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agonistical agonistics antagonist co-agonist coagonist deuteragonist inverse agonist protagonist superagonist tritagonist

词源

Borrowed from Latin agōnista, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνιστής (agōnistḗs, “combatant, champion”). By surface analysis, agon or agony + -ist.
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