Vasopressin

Definition: Vasopressin

Vasopressin

Noun

1. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules.

Date "vasopressin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonym: Vasopressin

Synonym: antidiuretic hormone (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Vasopressin

English words defined with "vasopressin": diabetes insipidus ♦ nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, neurohormone ♦ vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vasopressin": Desmopressin ♦ Hypothalamic Hormones ♦ Neurophysins ♦ Ornipressin ♦ Receptors, Vasopressin ♦ Vasopressins. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vasopressin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Danish (vasopressor).

Domain	Title
Books	Advances in Brain Vasopressin (reference) Neurobiology of Vasopressin (Current Topics in Neuroendocrinology, Vol 4) (reference) Neuroendocrinology of Vasopressin, Courticoliberin and Opiomelanocortins (reference) Neurohypophysis: Recent Progress of Vasopressin and Oxytocin Research: Proceedings of the 1st Joint World Congress of Neurohypophysis and (International Congress Series, 1098) (reference) Vasopressin (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some pituitary tumors decrease the secretion of vasopressin, the hormone that triggers the kidney's reabsorption of water from urine. (references)
		A lack of vasopressin can cause a great thirst, excess urination, voracious appetite accompanied by emaciation, loss of strength, and fainting. (references)
		In order to keep the volume and composition of body fluids balanced, the rate of fluid intake is governed by thirst, and the rate of excretion is governed by the production of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also called vasopressin. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Vasopressin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vasopressin" 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
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "vasopressin": 1-deamino-8-arginine-vasopressin.
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Language		Translations for "vasopressin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vasopressin (vasopressor), antidiuretisk hormon. (various references)

Dutch		vasopressinum, vasopressine. (various references)

Finnish		vasopressiini, antidiureettinen hormoni. (various references)

French		vasopressine. (various references)

German		Vasopressin, antidiuretisches Hormon (antidiuretic hormone), Adiuretin, ADH (ADHase, Alcohol Dehydrogenase). (various references)

Greek		βασοπρεσίνη. (various references)

Italian		vasopressione. (various references)

Pig Latin		asopressinvay

Portuguese		vasopressina. (various references)

Spanish		vasopresina. (various references)

Swedish		vasopressin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-v"
	-1 letter: aspersions, pervasions, savoriness.
	-2 letters: aspersion, aversions, overspins, passovers, pervasion, prosiness, psoriases, soapiness, vaporises.
	-3 letters: aversion, erasions, evasions, overpass, overspin, parvises, passions, passives, passover, pavisers, personas, prossies, responsa, ropiness, rosiness, savories, senopias, sensoria, vaporise, versions, vinasses.
	-4 letters: arsines, asepsis, aspires, aspises, epinaos, erasion, essoins, evasion, orpines, osseins, ovaries, paniers, pansies, paresis, parises, parsons, parvise, passers, passion, passive, paviors, paviser, pavises, persona, persons, pissers, poisers, praises, prisons, prisses, prosses, prossie, rapines, ravines, reasons, renvois, sanseis, sapiens, saroses, sarsens, sassier, savines, saviors, seasons, seisors, seniors, senopia, senoras, sensors, serosas, session, snipers, soapers, soapier, sonsier, soprani, sovrans, spavies, spavins, spinors, spinose, spireas, sprains, version, vinasse, viroses.
	-5 letters: aivers, anises, aprons, ariose, arisen, arises, arpens, arseno, arsine, arsino, arsons, aspens, aspers, aspire, avions, avisos, enosis, envois, eosins, essoin, invars, irones, naiver, naives, navies, noesis, noises, norias, nosier, operas, opines, opsins, orpine, orpins, osiers, ossein, ovines, paeons, panier, pareos, paries, parses, parson, parvis, parvos, paseos, passer, passes, pavers, pavins, pavior, pavise, person, pianos, pisser, pisses, poiser, poises, ponies, posers, posies, posses, praise, prases, prions, prises, prison, proses, proven, proves, raises, rapine, ravens, ravine, ravins, reason, renvoi, repass, repins, resins, rinses, ripens, rosins, sanies, sansei, sapors, sarins, sarsen, sasins, savers, savine, savins, savior, savors, season, seisor, senior, senora, senors, sensor, sepias, sepsis, serais, serins, serosa, servos, sirens, sivers, snares, sneaps, sniper, snipes, snores, soaper, soaves, sonars, sonsie, sovran, spares, sparse, spavie, spavin, speans, spears, speirs, speiss, spiers, spines, spinor, spirea, spires, spores, sprain, vainer, vapors, varies, versos, vipers, vireos, visors.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-s-v"
	+1 letter: vaporishness, vasopressins.
	+3 letters: vaporishnesses.
	+4 letters: operativenesses, overpersuasions.
	+5 letters: conservatorships, preservationists.
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