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Vasoconstrictive

Definition: Vasoconstrictive

Vasoconstrictive

Noun

1. Any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Vasoconstrictive

Synonym: vasoconstrictor (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: vasoconstrictive agents (medicine), vasoconstrictive preparation (chemical industry, industry), vasoconstrictors (medicine).

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Usage Frequency: Vasoconstrictive

"Vasoconstrictive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vasoconstrictive" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7133,076

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

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Modern Translations: Vasoconstrictive

Language Translations for "vasoconstrictive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

karkontraherende stoffer (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vasoconstrictor (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references)

   

German

  

Sperrkörper (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vasocostrittori (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asoconstrictivevay

   

Portuguese

  

vasoconstritor (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vasoconstrictor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vasoconstrictive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t-v-v"

-4 letters: constrictive, creationists.

-5 letters: antistories, cartoonists, coinvestors, concavities, concretists, consociates, constatives, contractive, contrastive, creationist, estivations, overactions, recitations, recitativos, revocations, trisections, vivisectors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vasoconstrictive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 73 6F 63 6F 6E 73 74 72 69 63 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0073 006F 0063 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 0069 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56678581698180858684756986758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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