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Definition: Vasoconstrictive |
VasoconstrictiveNoun1. 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: VasoconstrictiveSynonym: vasoconstrictor (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: vasoconstrictive agents (medicine), vasoconstrictive preparation (chemical industry, industry), vasoconstrictors (medicine). |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 vasoconstritor (vasoconstrictive agents, vasoconstrictors). (various references) vasoconstrictor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- ... --- -.-. --- -. ... - .-. .. -.-. - .. ...- . |
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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)V a s o c o n s t r i c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0073 006F 0063 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 0069 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56678581698180858684756986758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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