Vasodilation

Definition: Vasodilation

Vasodilation

Noun

1. Dilation of blood vessels (especially the arteries).

"Vasodilation" is a common misspelling or typo for: vasodilatation.

Specialty Definitions: Vasodilation

Domain	Definitions
Health	Physiological dilation of the blood vessels without anatomic change. For dilation with anatomic change, dilatation, pathologic or aneurysm (or specific aneurysm) is used. (references)
Medicine	The dilation of the blood vessels. Source: European Union. (references)
	Dilation of the blood vessels. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Vasodilation

English words defined with "vasodilation": beta receptor, beta-adrenergic receptor, beta-adrenoceptor ♦ Capoten, captopril ♦ enalapril ♦ Vasotec. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vasodilation": Amifostine, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors ♦ Bepridil ♦ Enalaprilat, Ergoloid Mesylates ♦ Fenoldopam ♦ Iloprost ♦ Nicorandil, Nylidrin ♦ Syncope, Vasovagal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vasodilation

Domain	Title
Books	Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 821 (reference) Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation & Oxidative Stress in Chronic Renal Failure (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of m (reference) Experimental Hypertension and Therapeutic Progress: Vasodilation and Beyond (reference) Mechanisms of Vasodilation Symposium, Abstracts (reference) Mental Stress & Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1149) (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Vasodilation

"Vasodilation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vasodilation" is used about 11 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%	11	106,044

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vasodilation

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
vasodilation	20
mechanism muscle prostaglandins smooth vasodilation	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vasodilation

Language		Translations for "vasodilation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vasodilatation (vasodilatation), karudvidelse. (various references)

Dutch		vasodilatatie (vasodilatation), vaatverwijding (vasodilatation). (various references)

Finnish		verisuonien laajentuminen, verisuonien laajeneminen (vasodilatation), vasodilataatio (vasodilatation), vasodilaatio (vasodilatation). (various references)

French		vaso-dilatation (vasodilatation), vasodilatation. (various references)

German		Vasodilatation (vasodilatation), Blutgefäßerweiterung. (various references)

Greek		αγγειοδιαστολή (vasodilatation). (various references)

Hungarian		értágulás. (various references)

Italian		vasodilatazione (vasodilatation, widening of the blood vessels). (various references)

Pig Latin		asodilationvay

Portuguese		vasodilatação. (various references)

Spanish		vasodilatación (arteriectasis, vasodilatation). (various references)

Swedish		vasodilation, kärlutvidning. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Vasodilation

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vasodilation": vasodilations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vasodilation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: validations.
	-2 letters: salivation, validation, violations.
	-3 letters: aviations, dilations, iodations, isolation, lavations, salvation, solvation, vindaloos, violation, volitions.
	-4 letters: alations, aviation, dilation, inositol, invalids, iodation, lavation, ovations, sialidan, solation, tolidins, valiants, valonias, vindaloo, visional, volition.
	-5 letters: alation, avidins, daltons, datival, dialist, distain, invalid, invital, ladinos, latinos, liaison, lianoid, lotions, navaids, oodlins, ovation, ovoidal, sandlot, sialoid, solatia, soliton, talions, tolidin, valiant, valonia, vandals, violins, violist.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: vasodilations.
	+2 letters: vasodilatation.
	+3 letters: vasodilatations.
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