NITROSPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nitrospan mean? 

• NITROSPAN (noun)
  The noun NITROSPAN has 2 senses:

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)

2. trade names for nitroglycerin used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris

  Familiarity information: NITROSPAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROSPAN (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 ("Nitrospan" 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 ("Nitrospan" 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)

Domain usage:

trade name (a name given to a product or service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Trade names for nitroglycerin used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Nitrospan; Nitrostat

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "Nitrospan"):

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