clonidine suppression test
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clonidine suppression test
The inability of clonidine, an α2-agonist, to suppress catecholamine secretion, a finding suggestive of a pheochromocytoma. See Pheochromocytoma.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.