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Definition: Captopril |
CaptoprilNoun1. A drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation; used in the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A potent and specific inhibitor of peptidyl-dipeptidase A. It blocks the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II, a vasoconstrictor and important regulator of arterial blood pressure. Captopril acts to suppress the renin-angiotensin system and inhibits pressure responses to exogenous angiotensin. (references) |
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Synonym: CaptoprilSynonym: Capoten (n). (additional references) |
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| "Captopril" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Captopril" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "captopril": Captopril and Hydrochlorothiazide. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
captopril | 120 |
captopril side effects | 4 |
captopril renal scan | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "captopril"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | captopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | captopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaptopriili. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | captopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Captopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεφρογραφία με καπτοπρίλη (captopril renography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | captopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aptoprilcay captopril. (various references) captopril. (various references) kaptopril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "captopril": captoprils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: tropical. | |
-2 letters: apricot, aprotic, caltrop, capitol, coalpit, optical, parotic, topical. | |
-3 letters: aortic, atopic, captor, caroli, cartop, citola, citral, coital, coppra, laptop, lictor, lorica, patrol, picaro, poplar, portal, rialto, rictal, tailor, tropic. | |
-4 letters: actor, aport, atrip, carol, carpi, clapt, claro, clipt, coapt, coati, copal, copra, coral, coria, lirot, lotic, octal, optic, palpi, parol, patio, pical. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: applicator, captoprils. | |
+2 letters: applicators, applicatory, pantropical, prophetical. | |
+3 letters: perceptional, plagiotropic, preceptorial, prophylactic, protoplasmic, prototypical, supplicatory. | |
+4 letters: laparoscopist, philanthropic, preceptorials, proleptically, prophetically, prophylactics, reapplication, topographical, typographical. | |
+5 letters: apotropaically, laparoscopists, petrographical, prepublication, prototypically, reapplications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 74 6F 70 72 69 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .--. - --- .--. .-. .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110010 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p t o p r i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0074 006F 0070 0072 0069 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376782868182847578 |
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