əˌzɛm noun Pharmacology.
a white to whitish crystalline powder, C 22 H 26 N 2 O 4 S, used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina pectoris.
Origin:
presumably from isolated and rearranged letters of the chemical name
presumably from isolated and rearranged letters of the chemical name
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| diltiazem | |
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| a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure |
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Diltiazem
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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