Synonyms for nitroglycerin
ˌnaɪ trəˈglɪs ər ɪn; -ər ɪn, -əˌrinni·tro·g·lyc·erin

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1. nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, Nitrospan, Nitrostatnoun

   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)

   Synonyms:
   trinitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, glyceryl trinitrate

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1. • Nitrate
   • Vasodilator

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1. List of paraphrases for "nitroglycerin":

   nitroglycerine, nitro

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nitroglycerin

   Synonyms:
   Glycerol trinitrate

2. nitroglycerin

   Synonyms:
   Homeopathy Glonoin, see there, Glonoinum
   

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1. Meiram Bendat:

   Imagine someone going to a hospital and being told you can't get open-heart surgery in the midst of a heart attack because you haven't tried aspirin or nitroglycerin first. That's the absurdity of it, it's just a way to discourage higher levels of care that we would never tolerate in the non-psychiatric context.

2. Alfred Hitchcock:

   We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

3. Chuck Hagel:

   At a time when everything is hair-triggered, everything is nitroglycerin, and miscalculations can lead to a lot of trouble, we need veterans’ input.