English-Portuguese translations for agonist

• agonista
  Substâncias com efeitos hormonais ou tireostáticos e substâncias â­agonistas em produção animal Substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists
  Organizações ligadas à mafia ministram hormonas, antibióticos, corticosteróides e beta-agonistas aos nossos bovinos. Mafia-type organisations give our cattle hormones, antibiotics, corticosteroids, betablockers, and beta-agonists.

Definition of agonist

• Someone involved in a contest or battle , protagonist
• A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction

Examples

• When bending the elbow, the biceps is the agonist.
• Acetylcholine is an agonist at the cholinergic receptor.

Related words

• antagonist
• antagonistic
• protagonist
• agonistic
• agonistics
• antagonistically
• deuteragonist
• nonantagonistic
• tritagonist