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
Technically, inotropes can be divided into positive inotropes, which stimulate and increase the force of contraction of the heart muscle, and negative inotropes, which weaken the force of muscular contractions, decreasing how hard the heart has to work.