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-ergic

  1. 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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of -ergic1

Apparently originally in adrenergic and cholinergic, probably on the model of allergic

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