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Definition: Reserpine |
ReserpineNoun1. Antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An alkaloid found in the roots of Rauwolfia serpentina and R. vomitoria. Reserpine inhibits the uptake of norepinephrine into storage vesicles resulting in depletion of catecholamines and serotonin from central and peripheral axon terminals. It has been used as an antihypertensive and an antipsychotic as well as a research tool, but its adverse effects limit its clinical use. (references) |
Medicine | Alkaloid found in the root of Rauwolfia serpentina. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ReserpineSynonyms: Raudixin (n), Rau-Sed (n), Sandril (n), Serpasil (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reserpine |
| Specialty definitions using "reserpine": Biperiden ♦ Nimustine ♦ Rauwolfia Alkaloids. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Seen is the drug Reserpine in tablet form being counted out to fill a prescription in a pharmacy.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
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Health | On the other hand, patients have occasionally benefited from drugs that decrease dopamine, such as reserpine or the investigational drug tetrabenazine. (references) | |
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| "Reserpine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reserpine" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
reserpine | 40 |
hydralazine hydrochlorothiazide reserpine | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "reserpine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 利血平宁. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | reserpin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reserpine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reserpiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réserpine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reserpin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεσερπίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reserpina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eserpineray reserpina. (various references) reserpina. (various references) reserpin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reserpine": reserpines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: preeners, prerinse, repiners, ripeners. | |
-2 letters: erepsin, eserine, peeries, perries, preener, prisere, repiner, repines, reprise, rerisen, respire, ripener, seepier, serener, sneerer. | |
-3 letters: eerier, nereis, peerie, pensee, preens, priers, repine, repins, rerise, reseen, rinser, ripens, seiner, serein, serene, serine, sirree, sniper, sprier. | |
-4 letters: eerie, epees, ernes, neeps, peens, peers, peins, peise, penes, penis, peris, perse, piers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: enterprise, peregrines, reserpines. | |
+2 letters: encipherers, enterpriser, enterprises, intersperse, persevering, replenisher, terrepleins. | |
+3 letters: derepressing, derepression, enterprisers, intercepters, interpreters, interspersed, intersperses, misrepresent, peregrinates, prebendaries, prerecession, prescreening, reexpressing, reinterprets, replenishers, reprehension, reprehensive, representing, superheroine, teleprinters. | |
+4 letters: derepressions, experimenters, interpleaders, misrepresents, perseverating, perseveration, perseveringly, predetermines, preinterviews, prescreenings, redemptioners, reexperiences, reprehensible, reprehensibly, reprehensions, superencipher, superheroines. | |
+5 letters: hypersecretion, impropernesses, interpermeates, misinterpreted, misrepresented, peremptoriness, perseverations, postretirement, predeterminers, preexperiments, prefigurements, preregistering, preretirements, representation, representative, repressiveness, superenciphers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 65 72 70 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... . .-. .--. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s e r p i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0065 0072 0070 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)527185718482758071 |
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