Ephedrine

Definition: Ephedrine

Ephedrine

Noun

1. White odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma.

Specialty Definitions: Ephedrine

Domain	Definitions
Health	An alpha- and beta-adrenergic agonist that may also enhance release of norepinephrine. It has been used in the treatment of several disorders including asthma, heart failure, rhinitis, and urinary incontinence, and for its central nervous system stimulatory effects in the treatment of narcolepsy and depression. It has become less extensively used with the advent of more selective agonists. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Ephedrine

English words defined with "ephedrine": Ephedra sinica ♦ mahuang ♦ pseudoephedrine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ephedrine

Domain	Title
Books	Dietary Supplements: Uncertainties in Analyses Underlying Fdas Proposed Rule on Ephedrine Alkaloids (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Ephedrine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The combination drugs often contain sedatives to combat the unpleasant side effects of ephedrine. (references)
		Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine both are active, but phenylpropanolamine has been used most often, and objective benefit by urodynamic study has been shown. (references)
		The sympathomimetic drug used in these preparations is ephedrine, a drug with many side effects and less bronchodilating effect than other drugs now available. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ephedrine

"Ephedrine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Ephedrine" is used about 3 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)	66.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ephedrine

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
ephedrine	1,632	ephedrine sulfate	11
ephedrine free hydroxycut	90	ephedrine sale	11
ephedrine hcl	63	ephedrine pill	11
ephedrine side effects	58	ephedrine hcl order	10
ephedrine product	26	ephedrine weight loss	10
effects of ephedrine	26	ephedrine death	9
ephedrine xenadrine	25	ephedrine free diet pill	9
ephedrine alkaloid	22	ban ephedrine	8
danger of ephedrine	22	ephedrine extraction	8
buy ephedrine	21	ephedrine caffeine aspirin	7
pure ephedrine	18	ephedrine reduction	7
ephedrine diet pill	17	2 ephedrine free stacker	6
ephedrine free	17	ephedrine purchase	6
hydroxycut ephedrine	16	ephedrine caffeine	6
ephedrine hydrochloride	15	ephedrine hcl purchase pure	6
pseudo ephedrine	12	ephedrine diet	5
ephedrine addiction	12	ephedrine supplement	5
ephedrine plus	12	extracting ephedrine	5
ephedrine free xenadrine	11	ephedrine synthesis	5
ephedrine ephedra	11	ephedrine hydrochloride supplier	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ephedrine

Language		Translations for "ephedrine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		麻黄精. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		エネルギー問題 (apron, apron stage, effect, effective, effector, effects, energy, energy problems, epic, epicurean, epigone, epigram, epigraph, epilogue, episode, episteme, epitaph, epitaxy, Epson, evaluation, evaluator, evangelist, evaporated milk, event, ever, ever onward, Everest, Everglaze, evergreen, Everpleats, Everwhite, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FM, FM tuner, foam rubber, frequency modulation, Jehovah, rapier, special version of a product with features that allow it to be used for evaluation, tags attached to industrial equipment when defects or malfunctions are discovered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エフェドリン . (various references)

Pig Latin		ephedrineay

Swedish		efedrin. (various references)

Thai		สารอัลคาลอย�"์สีขาวไม่มีกลิ่นช่วยบรรเทาอาการคั�"จมูก ขยายรูม่านตาและกระตุ้นระบบประสาทส่�. (various references)

Turkish		efedrin (ephedrin). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ephedrine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ephedrine": ephedrines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ephedrine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aherdane, efedrine, Ephedra, ephedrines, ephedrinium, methedrine, Pethedine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ephedrine"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ephedrine" (pronounced efe"dri'n)
4	-d r i' n	aldrin.
3	-r i' n	citrin, Estrin, florin, Sarin.
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Anagrams: Ephedrine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-h-i-n-p-r"
	-1 letter: ephedrin.
	-2 letters: inhered, needier, preened, repined, ripened.
	-3 letters: deepen, deeper, denier, heeder, heired, herein, hinder, inhere, needer, nereid, peened, peered, peerie, peined, perdie, pinder, reined, repine.
	-4 letters: diene, diner, eerie, eider, ender, heder, hider, hired, pined, preed, preen, pride, pried, redip, repin, riped, ripen.
	-5 letters: deep, deer, dene, deni, dere, dine, dire, dree, drip, eide.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-h-i-n-p-r"
	+1 letter: enciphered, ephedrines.
	+2 letters: replenished.
	+3 letters: decipherment, hyperendemic, reprehending, sheepherding, undeciphered.
	+4 letters: decipherments, parenthesized, sheepherdings.
	+5 letters: comprehendible, hyperextending, hyperpigmented, indecipherable, misapprehended, nephrectomized, radiotelephone, undecipherable, underemphasize.
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