NITROGLYCERIN
\nˌa͡ɪtɹə͡ʊɡlˈɪsəɹˌɪn], \nˌaɪtɹəʊɡlˈɪsəɹˌɪn], \n_ˌaɪ_t_ɹ_əʊ_ɡ_l_ˈɪ_s_ə_ɹ_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of NITROGLYCERIN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.
By Oddity Software
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A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.
By Noah Webster.
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A volatile vasodilator which relieves ANGINA PECTORIS by stimulating GUANYLATE CYCLASE and lowering cytosolic calcium.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Glonoin, glyceryl trinitrate, C3H5 (NO3)3, a yellowish oily fluid formed by the action of sulphuric and nitric acids on glycerin; employed as a vasodilator in doses of gr. 1/200-1/50 (0.0003-0.0013); the official preparation is the spiritus glycerylis nitratis.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By James Champlin Fernald
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An explosive liquid, C3H5N3O9: a vasodilator.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: glyceryl nitrate, trinitrin, glonoin. The glycerin ester of nitric acid. A colorless,oily, explosive liquid, C3H5 (O.NO2)3, prepared by the action of nitric and sulphuric acids on glycerin and subsequent precipitation with water. It is a powerful explosive and mixed with earth is known as dynamite. In minute doses it causes acceleration of the heart's action by dilatation of the arterioles, with violent headache. It is used in solution for lowering the blood pressure. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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