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Definition: Vasoconstrictor |
VasoconstrictorNoun1. 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: VasoconstrictorSynonym: vasoconstrictive (n). (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Vasoconstrictor |
| English words defined with "vasoconstrictor": angiotensin, angiotonin ♦ Drixoral ♦ Hypertensin ♦ lypressin ♦ naphazoline ♦ phenylephrine, Privine ♦ Sudafed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vasoconstrictor": Angiotensins, Argipressin ♦ Bay-K-8644 ♦ Deoxyepinephrine, Dihydroergotamine ♦ Endothelins, Etilefrine ♦ Felypressin ♦ Metaraminol, Midodrine ♦ Neuropeptide Y, Nordefrin ♦ Ornipressin ♦ Synephrine ♦ Vasoconstrictor Agents, Vasopressins. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vasoconstrictor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (vasoconstrictive). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Another migraine drug is ergotamine tartrate, a vasoconstrictor which helps counteract the painful dilation stage of the headache. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vasoconstrictor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vasoconstrictor" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "vasoconstrictor": Vasoconstrictor Agents. 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 |
vasoconstrictor | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vasoconstrictor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 血管æ"¶ç¼©å‰‚. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | asoconstrictorvay kärlsammandragande medel. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vasoconstrictor": vasoconstrictors. (additional references) | |
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"Vasoconstrictor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vasoconstriptor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "vasoconstrictor" (pronounced 'Vas`o*con*strict"or'): Acceptor, Assertor, Assessor, Assistor, Assizor, Attractor, Chantor, Circumventor, Co-assessor, Collector, Compressor, Conductor, Confessor, Conjector, Connector, Consignor, Constrictor, constructor, Contractor, Contradictor, Conveyor, Corrector, Countor, Cruor, Debtor, Decolor, Deflector, Deforceor, Demeanor, Depressor, Detracor, Devisor, Digestor, Dilator, Director, Discolor, Disenamor, Disinfector, Dispossessor, Dissector, Distrainor, Duressor, Effector, Egressor, Embraceor, Enactor, Enamor, Encolor, Envigor, Ephor, Escheator, Exactor, Exceptor, Excheator, Extructor, flexor, grantor, Guilor, Hydro-extractor, ignitor, Impressor, Indictor, inductor, Infractor, Injector, inspector, instructor, INVENTOR, investor, Invigor, Mainor, Maintainor, manor, mayor, Miscolor, misdemeanor, Nonconductor, Objector, Oppressor, Overcolor, Pavisor, Possessor, Predictor, Preemtor, Prepossessor, Pressor, Professor, Protector, Protractor, Purveyor, Receiptor, reflector, Refractor, Regrator, Relator, Releasor, Reservor, Rethor, retractor, Revivor, sailor, selector, Self-tormentor, subcontractor, Subprior, Substractor, suitor, Superstructor, supervisor, suppressor, Supravisor, surveyor, survivor, tenor, Tikor, tormentor, transactor, translator, Tresor, Trior, valor, Vasodilator, Vendor, Visor, Wastor. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: constrictors. | |
-4 letters: cartoonists, constrictor, contractors, corotations. | |
-5 letters: cartoonist, constricts, contractor, corotation, corrasions, corrosions, transistor, vasotocins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: vasoconstrictors. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 73 6F 63 6F 6E 73 74 72 69 63 74 6F 72 |
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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 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a s o c o n s t r i c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0073 006F 0063 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 0069 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)566785816981808586847569868184 |
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