glyceryl trinitrate
- noun
- /ˈɡlɪsərəl traɪˈnɪtreɪt/
- Specialized
:
trinitrato de glicerilo
- The doctor prescribed glyceryl trinitrate to help relieve the patient's chest pain.
Examples
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This can cause pain on exertion, which is relieved by rest or sublingual glyceryl trinitrate (GTN).
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If systolic blood pressure was above 180 mm Hg, 1 mg intravenous glyceryl trinitrate was administered.
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Continuous perfusion of glyceryl trinitrate was started at an initial rate of 1.5 mg/h.
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Keywords: stroke; hypertension; glyceryl trinitrate
Academic text (2015) -
In patients with acute stroke and high blood pressure (BP), does glyceryl trinitrate (nitric oxide) safely improve outcomes?
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Terlipressin, a synthetic analogue of vasopressin with a longer half-life, combined with glyceryl trinitrate, reduces but does not eliminate side effects.
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Bradyarrhythmias, defined as a heart rate below 50/min, occurred in 7 (12%) patients in the diltiazem group and in 2 (3%) in the glyceryl trinitrate group (not significant).
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Glyceryl trinitrate dermal patch, 5 mg, for 7 days (n = 2000), or no patch (n = 2011), covered with gauze dressing.
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Further doses of morphine (2 mg), furosemide (20 mg), and glyceryl trinitrate were unrestricted according to clinical response.
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In patients with acute stroke and high blood pressure, glyceryl trinitrate did not improve functional outcome or increase the risk of serious adverse events. Continuing use of antihypertensive medications did not improve functional outcome or increase the risk of serious adverse events compared with stopping antihypertensive medications.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A heavy oily liquid that explodes, poisons people, and can widen blood vessels to treat heart pain
A very strong yellow oily liquid that can explode and is used in small doses to treat chest pain
A medicine used for chest pain that widens blood vessels
A tablet of nitroglycerin placed under the tongue to treat sudden chest pain from angina
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a systematic chemical compound name: the meaning follows directly from combining 'glyceryl' (derived from glycerol) with 'trinitrate' (bearing three nitrate groups), so a learner who knows those constituents can infer it is the nitrate ester of glycerol. Although technical, the compositional morphology and standard chemical-naming logic are cross-linguistically regular, making the overall meaning derivable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Glyceryl trinitrate gets its name from its parts: glyceryl comes from the small chemical 'glycerol', and trinitrate means three attached 'nitrate' groups. Those three 'nitrate' groups give the liquid strong power — in large amounts it can explode, but in tiny medical doses it helps blood vessels open, so doctors use it for 'angina' or chest pain.