NITROGLYCERINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitroglycerine mean? 

• NITROGLYCERINE (noun)
  The noun NITROGLYCERINE 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: NITROGLYCERINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROGLYCERINE (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)

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("nitroglycerine" 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 ("nitroglycerine" 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 

This is an aspect that comes around every two years, so you don’t have that much experience with Uranus, as its character is to be as volatile as nitroglycerine.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In addition, nitroglycerine causes coronary artery dilatation, thereby improving myocardial blood distribution.

(Nitroglycerin, NCI Thesaurus)