angiotonin

Questions about angiotonin

What does angiotonin mean?

angiotonin means "any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels".

How many syllables are in angiotonin?

angiotonin has 5 syllables and divides as an-gi-o-to-nin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for angiotonin?

Close synonyms include angiotensin, Hypertensin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angiotonin a common word?

angiotonin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.