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Definition: Ranitidine |
RanitidineNoun1. A histamine blocker and antacid (trade name Zantac) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A non-imidazole blocker of those histamine receptors that mediate gastric secretion (H2 receptors). It is used to treat gastrointestinal ulcers. (references) |
Medicine | Drug used to eradicate Helicobacter pylori. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RanitidineSynonym: Zantac (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ranitidine |
| Specialty definitions using "ranitidine": H2-Blockers ♦ Pirenzepine ♦ Ranitidine Bismuth Citrate, Ranitidine Hydrochloride. (references) |
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Health | Medications used to reduce stomach acid include cimetidine, ranitidine, famotidine, and omeprazole. (references) | |
One promising study reported efficacy of approximately 90 percent with the combination of ranitidine, metronidazole, and amoxicillin. (references) | ||
For example, people who feel abdominal pain before an episode can ask their doctor about taking ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) to try to stop it. Other medications that may be helpful are ranitidine (Zantac) or omeprazole (Prilosec), which help calm the stomach by lowering the amount of acid it makes. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ranitidine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.39% of the time. "Ranitidine" is used about 66 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) | 89.39% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ranitidine": Ranitidine Bismuth Citrate ♦ Ranitidine Hydrochloride. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
ranitidine | 475 |
ranitidine side effects | 17 |
ranitidine hcl | 15 |
apo ranitidine | 6 |
ranitidine hydrochloride | 6 |
ranitidine 150 mg | 4 |
ranitidine drug | 4 |
ranitidine tablet | 4 |
pregnancy ranitidine | 4 |
ranitidine dosage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ranitidine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | ranitidin. (various references) | |
Dutch | ranitidine. (various references) | |
Finnish | ranitidiini. (various references) | |
French | ranitidine, Azantac. (various references) | |
German | Ranitidin. (various references) | |
Italian | ranitidina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anitidineray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ranitidina. (various references) | |
Spanish | ranitidina. (various references) | |
Swedish | ranitidin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ranitidine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aziridine, magnitudine, raniditine, rantidine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: daintier, triennia. | |
-3 letters: antired, denarii, detrain, entrain, inditer, inedita, inertia, nardine, nitride, tinnier, trained. | |
-4 letters: airted, ardent, denari, dentin, detain, dinner, endrin, inaner, indent, indite, innate, intend, intern, intine, narine, nitrid, rained, ranted, ratine, retain, retina, rident, tanned, tanner, tidier, tinder, tineid, tinier, tinned, tinner, tirade, trined. | |
-5 letters: aider, aired, anent, anted, antre, dater, deair, denar, derat, dinar, diner, drain, entia, inane, indie, indri, inert, inned, inner, inter, irade, irate, nadir, niter, nitid, nitre, radii, ranid, rated, redan, redia, renin, retia, riant, tared, teiid, teind, tenia, terai, tinea, tined, tired, trade, train, tread, trend, triad, tried, trine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+2 letters: incriminated. | |
+3 letters: administering, defibrinating, defibrination. | |
+4 letters: defibrinations, disinheritance, disintegrating, disintegration, disorientating, disorientation, indiscriminate, intermediating, intermediation, tridimensional, unidirectional. | |
+5 letters: denitrification, differentiating, differentiation, disinheritances, disintegrations, disorientations, inconsideration, indeterminacies, indetermination, interdigitating, interdigitation, interdivisional, interindividual, intermediations, omnidirectional. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 6E 69 74 69 64 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -. .. - .. -.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a n i t i d i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006E 0069 0074 0069 0064 0069 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52678075867570758071 |
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