In the meantime, Dale created a terminology that since has imprinted the thinking of neuroscientists: that nerve cells should be named after their transmitter, i.e. cholinergic if the transmitter was ″a substance like acetylcholine", and adrenergic if it was ″some substance like adrenaline″.
Inzwischen schuf Dale eine Terminologie, die seither das Denken der Neurowissenschaftler prägte: Man solle Nervenzellen nach ihrem Transmitter nennen, also „adrenerg“, wenn der Transmitter „eine Substanz wie Adrenalin – some substance like adrenaline“, und „cholinerg“, wenn er „eine Substanz wie Acetylcholin – some substance like acetylcholine“ wäre.