The name was coined by Alexander Vostokov and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad, first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries.
Define inotropic: increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions â inotropic in a sentence increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractionsâ¦ See the full definition
The word nootropic was coined in 1972 by a Romanian psychologist and chemist, Corneliu E. Giurgea, from the Greek words Î½Î¿ÏÏ (nous), or mind, and ÏÏÎ­ÏÎµÎ¹Î½ (trepein), meaning to bend or turn.