NITROGLYCERIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitroglycerin mean? 

• NITROGLYCERIN (noun)
  The noun NITROGLYCERIN has 1 sense:

1. a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)

  Familiarity information: NITROGLYCERIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROGLYCERIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

glyceryl trinitrate; nitroglycerin; nitroglycerine; Nitrospan; Nitrostat; trinitroglycerin

Hypernyms ("nitroglycerin" is a kind of...):

vasodilative; vasodilator (a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels)

nitrate (any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid))

Holonyms ("nitroglycerin" is a substance of...):

blasting gelatin (mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin)

cordite (explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords)

dynamite (an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp)

Nitrospan; Nitrostat (trade names for nitroglycerin used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris)

 Context examples 

Upon application to the skin, nitroglycerin is continuously released from the patch and absorbed.

(Nitroglycerin Transdermal Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitroglycerin is converted into nitric oxide (NO) in smooth muscle and activates guanylyl cyclase, thereby increasing cGMP concentration, and resulting in smooth muscle relaxation.

(Nitroglycerin, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitroglycerin is being studied as a way to help chemotherapy work better by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drugs.

(Nitroglycerin, NCI Dictionary)

The inactive form of ALDH2 is linked to increased cancer risk, and it also reduces the effectiveness of nitroglycerin (a drug to treat angina, chest pain that occurs when the heart doesn't get enough oxygen-rich blood).

(Alcohol Could be Toxic and Cause DNA Damage for Some People, NIH, US)

A sustained release transdermal patch containing the organic nitrate nitroglycerin, with vasodilator and potential immunomodulating activities.

(Nitroglycerin Transdermal Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

In turn, nitroglycerin is converted into nitric oxide (NO), which activates guanylyl cyclase, increasing cyclic guanosine monophosphate concentration thus resulting in smooth muscle relaxation.

(Nitroglycerin Transdermal Patch, NCI Thesaurus)