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PROPRANOLOL

Specialty Definition: PROPRANOLOL

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Health

A widely used non-cardioselective beta-adrenergic antagonist. Propranolol is used in the treatment or prevention of many disorders including acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, angina pectoris, hypertension, hypertensive emergencies, hyperthyroidism, migraine, pheochromocytoma, menopause, and anxiety. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Propranolol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Propranolol (Inderal) is a non-selective beta blocker drug that is used in treating restlessness and tremors. It was also often used in hypertension and heart disease, but nowadays selective beta blockers are preferred for these indications.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Propranolol."

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Crosswords: PROPRANOLOL

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

Portuguese (propranolol).

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Non-Fiction Usage: PROPRANOLOL

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Health

Some cluster patients can prevent attacks by taking propranolol, methysergide, valproic acid, verapamil, or lithium carbonate. (references)

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Usage Frequency: PROPRANOLOL

"PROPRANOLOL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "PROPRANOLOL" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.89%8124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Expressions: PROPRANOLOL

Expressions using "PROPRANOLOL": Propranolol and Hydrochlorothiazide Propranolol Hydrochloride. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PROPRANOLOL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

propranolol

331

effects propranolol side

13

propranolol hydrochloride

9

apo propranolol

5

propranolol la

5

propranolol hcl

4

propranolol inderal

4

anxiety propranolol

3

pregnancy propranolol

2

propranolol drug

2
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Modern Translation: PROPRANOLOL

Language Translations for "PROPRANOLOL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

propranolol. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

propranolol. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

propranololi. (various references)

   

French

  

propranolol. (various references)

   

German

  

Propranolol. (various references)

   

Italian

  

propranololo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opranololpray

   

Portuguese

  

propranolol. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

propranolol. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

propranolol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PROPRANOLOL

Derivations

Words beginning with "PROPRANOLOL": propranolols. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PROPRANOLOL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r"

-4 letters: polaron.

-5 letters: apollo, pallor, parlor, poplar, prolan.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r"
 

+1 letter: propranolols.

 

+3 letters: proportionally.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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