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[ adverb ] with respect to the sympathetic nervous system

Examples

"the stimulus acted sympathetically"

Used in print

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

A state of parasympathetic `` tuning '' of the hypothalamus induced experimentally causes not_only an increase in the parasympathetic reactivity this structure to direct and reflexly induced stimuli , but leads also to an autonomic reversal : a stimulus acting sympathetically under control_conditions elicits in this state of tuning a parasympathetic response !

Related terms

sympathetic sympathetic

2
[ adverb ] in a sympathetic manner

Examples

"she listened to him sympathetically"

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