glyceryl trinitrate

Questions about glyceryl trinitrate

What does glyceryl trinitrate mean?

glyceryl trinitrate means "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)".

What is another word for glyceryl trinitrate?

Close synonyms include nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat. 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 glyceryl trinitrate a common word?

glyceryl trinitrate 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.