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Definitions: Adrenergic |
AdrenergicAdjective1. Relating to epinephrine (its release or action). Noun1. Drug that has the effects of epinephrine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Activated by, characteristic of, or secreting epinephrine or substances with similar activity; the term is applied to those nerve fibres that liberate norepinephrine at a synapse when a nerve impulse passes, i.e., the sympathetic fibres. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdrenergicSynonyms: sympathomimetic (adj), adrenergic drug (n). (additional references) |
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Health | Other drugs such as benzodiazepines, adrenergic antagonists, and dopamine agonists may also be beneficial. (references) | |
Priapism is treated with adrenergic agents, which can cause life-threatening hypertension in patients receiving monoamine oxidase inhibitors. (references) | ||
Alpha adrenergic agonists, used in treatment of stress incontinence, produce smooth muscle contraction at the bladder outlet and may improve continence. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adrenergic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adrenergic" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adrenergic": Adrenergic Agents ♦ Adrenergic Agonists ♦ Adrenergic alpha-Agonists ♦ Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists ♦ Adrenergic Antagonists ♦ Adrenergic beta-Agonists ♦ Adrenergic beta-Antagonists ♦ adrenergic drug ♦ Adrenergic Fibers ♦ adrenergic receptor ♦ Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "adrenergic": adrenergic-dependent. | |
Ending with "adrenergic": non-adrenergic. | |
Containing "adrenergic": alpha-adrenergic blocker, alpha-adrenergic blocking agent, alpha-adrenergic receptor, beta-adrenergic blocker, beta-adrenergic blocking agent, beta-adrenergic receptor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adrenergic | 10 |
adrenergic receptors | 5 |
adrenergic alpha2 receptors | 3 |
adrenergic drug | 3 |
adrenergic beta | 3 |
adrenergic alpha | 2 |
adrenergic receptor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adrenergic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 肾上腺 能. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adrenerg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adrenergisch, adrenerg, adrenergisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adrenolyyttinen lääke (adrenergic blocking agent, adrenolytic drug), adrenerginen reseptori (adrenergic receptor, adrenoceptor, adrenoreceptor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adrénergique, adrénergique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | adrenerg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αδρεναλινεργικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adrenergico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adrenergicay adrenérgico, adrenérgico. (various references) адренергический. (various references) adrenérgico. (various references) adrenergikum (adrenergic blocking agent, adrenolytic drug), adrenerg receptor (adrenergic receptor, adrenoceptor, adrenoreceptor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adrenergic": adrenergically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "adrenergic": noradrenergic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: careering, grenadier, rereading. | |
-2 letters: deringer, gardener, garnered, receding, regained, regainer. | |
-3 letters: acrider, anergic, angered, angrier, cairned, carding, carried, cringed, cringer, deciare, decrier, deraign, derange, dernier, drainer, dreeing, earring, encaged, energid, enraged, generic, gnarred, gradine, grained, grainer, grandee, grander, grenade, grinder, incaged, nerdier, randier, rangier, readier, reading, rearing, recaned, reeding, reginae, regrade, regrind, reigned. | |
-4 letters: aedine, aeried, aerier, agreed, arcing, arider, cadger, cagier, carder, careen, career, caried, caring, carnie, cedarn, ceding, cering, cinder, craned, cringe, dancer, danger, daring, darner, dearer, dearie, decane, decare, decern, deicer, denari, denier, dinger, dragee, earing, earned, earner, edenic, edgier, encage, endear, engird, enrage, errand, erring, gained, gainer, gander, garden, garner, garred, geared, gender, genera, girder, girned, graced, grader, gradin, incage, nacred, neared, nearer, nereid, racier, racing, raider, rained, rancid, ranged, ranger, raring, reader, reagin, reared, recane, redear, rediae, reding, reearn, regain, regard, regear, regina, reined, render, reread, ringed, ringer. | |
-5 letters: acing, acned, acred, acrid, aerie, agene, agree, aider, aired, airer, anger, arced, areic, cadge, cadre, caged, cager, caird, cairn, caned, caner, canid, cared, carer, cedar, ceder, cered, ceria, cider, cigar, crane, creed, cried, crier, dance, darer, daric, deair, deice, deign, denar, dicer, diene, dinar, diner, dinge, direr, dirge, drain, drear, drier, eager, eagre, eared, edger, eider, ender, erica, erred, garni, genic, genie, genre, gnarr, grace, grade, grain, grand, greed, green, gride, grind, irade, nacre, nadir, naric, nicad, nicer, niece, raced, racer, raged, ragee, rance, ranee, range, ranid, rared, redan, redia, regna, reign, renig, reran, rerig, riced, ricer, rider, ridge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-r" | |
+2 letters: redecorating. | |
+3 letters: decerebrating, noradrenergic, reaccrediting, undercarriage, underreacting. | |
+4 letters: adrenergically, overdecorating, undercarriages. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 72 65 6E 65 72 67 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .-. . -. . .-. --. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d r e n e r g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0072 0065 006E 0065 0072 0067 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35708471807184737569 |
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