-ergic

-ergic
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]

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