Nifedipine

Definition: Nifedipine

Nifedipine

Noun

1. Calcium blocker (trade name Procardia); appears to increase the risk of recurrent heart attacks.

Specialty Definitions: Nifedipine

Domain	Definitions
Health	A potent vasodilator agent with calcium antagonistic action. It is a useful anti-anginal agent that also lowers blood pressure. The use of nifedipine as a tocolytic is being investigated. (references)
Medicine	A calcium channel blocker used to treat high blood pressure. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Nifedipine

Synonym: Procardia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nifedipine

Specialty definitions using "nifedipine": Bay-K-8644. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nifedipine

Domain	Title
Books	Nifedipine in clinical practice : proceedings of the First International Canadian Nifedipine Symposium, February 11 and 12, 1982, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nifedipine

"Nifedipine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nifedipine" is used about 10 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)	100%	10	111,207

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nifedipine

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
nifedipine	158
nifedipine xl	11
nifedipine er	8
adalat nifedipine	4
nifedipine side effects	3
30mg cr nifedipine	3
nifedipine pregnancy	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nifedipine

Language		Translations for "nifedipine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nifedipin. (various references)

Dutch		nifedipine. (various references)

Finnish		nifedipiini. (various references)

French		nifédipine, Procardia. (various references)

German		Nifedipin. (various references)

Italian		nifedipina. (various references)

Pig Latin		ifedipinenay

Portuguese		nifedipino. (various references)

Spanish		nifedipino, nifedipina. (various references)

Swedish		nifedipin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Nifedipine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nifedipine": nifedipines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nifedipine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-i-i-n-n-p"
	-4 letters: define, finned, indene, peined, penned, pinene, pinned.
	-5 letters: diene, fiend, fined, indie, inned, penne, penni, pined.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-i-i-n-n-p"
	+1 letter: nifedipines.
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