-ERGIC


Meaning of -ERGIC in English

a combining form with the meanings "activated by," "sensitive to," "releasing," "resembling the effect produced by" the substance or phenomenon specified by the initial element: dopaminergic.

[ appar. orig. in ADRENERGIC and CHOLINERGIC, prob. on the model of ALLERGIC ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .