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Definition of Glonoin

1. n. Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin.

Definition of Glonoin

1. Noun. (medicine) nitroglycerine when used medicinally ¹

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Definition of Glonoin

1. nitroglycerin [n -S] - See also: nitroglycerin

Medical Definition of Glonoin

1. A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colourless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion. A great number of explosive compounds have been produced by mixing nitroglycerin with different substances; as, dynamite, or giant powder, nitroglycerin mixed with siliceous earth; lithofracteur, nitroglycerin with gunpowder, or with sawdust and nitrate of sodium or barium; Colonia powder, gunpowder with nitroglycerin; dualin, nitroglycerin with sawdust, or with sawdust and nitrate of potassium and some other substances; lignose, wood fibre and nitroglycerin. Pharmacologic action: Relaxes smooth muscle - dilates veins, dilates coronary arteries, reduces left ventricular filling pressure, lowers systemic vascular resistance, decreases myocardial oxygen demand. Uses: Treat angina pectoris. Dose: One tablet (0.3 to 0.4 mg) sublingual, may repeat twice at 5 minute intervals Intravenous infusion: 0.5 - 2 mcg/kg per min. Potential complications: May cause hypotension, especially if hypovolemic; headache is common. Alternative forms: nitroglycerine. Origin: Nitro- + glycerinn. (17 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Glonoin

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1. A Therapeutic guide to alkaloidal-dosimetric-medication by John M. Shaller (1904)
"The physiological effects of glonoin can be very easily, quickly and safely ... glonoin is a stimulant in small doses and a depressant in large ones, ..."

2. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"The .subsequent trials with it by Drs. Fuller and Hurley, while they show that Mr. Field had certainly overrated the powers of glonoin, given in very small ..."

3. Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication by John William Fyfe, John Milton Scudder (1909)
"In angina pectoris, bronchial, nervous and uremic asthma, and in chronic nephritis, glonoin is a remedy of superior merit. ..."

4. A Text-book of Alkaloidal Therapeutics by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott, Ephraim Menahhem Epstein (1904)
"But the use of tannic acid in granules leaves little to be desired when a vegetable astringent is indicated. glonoin. Standard granule—Gr. 1-250, gm. .0025. ..."

5. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"GAMBOGE, GELSEMIUM, glonoin, GRAPHITES, GRATIOLA, GUAIACUM. I begin this lecture with a drug which generally appears in homoeopathic works under its old ..."

6. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"the heats of heart cannot he felt, chills and pains in head ; nervous chills, yet skin is warm, wants to he held that she may not shake so. glonoin. ..."

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