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Definition of Calcium-channel blocker

1. Noun. Any of a class of drugs that block the flow of the electrolyte calcium (either in nerve cell conduction or smooth muscle contraction of the heart); has been used in the treatment of angina or arrhythmia or hypertension or migraine.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcium-channel Blocker

Literary usage of Calcium-channel blocker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unstable Angina: Diagnosis and Management by Eugene Braunwald (1997)
"Choice of individual calcium channel blocker is based primarily on the hemodynamic state of the patient, risk of adverse effects on contractility and AY ..."

2. Recent Developments in Multiple Comparison Procedures by Yoav Benjamini, Frank Bretz, Sanat K. Sarkar (2004)
"... sample clinical trial with five treatment arms to investigate the dose-response relationship of a new calcium channel blocker (CCB) in three doses (50, ..."

3. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"In addition, removal of extracellular calcium, treatment with verapamil (a calcium channel blocker), ..."

4. The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women by Marian Sandmaier (1993)
"calcium-channel blocker (CCB)—relaxes blood vessels; used for high blood pressure and chest pain (see p. 13 for a special note on CCBs). ..."

5. Alcohol and the Brain (1993)
"... a calcium channel blocker, has reduced ethanol withdrawal symptoms in humans, with few sedative side effects (Koppi et al. 1989). ..."

6. Acute Perinatal Asphyxia in Term Infants: Report of the Workshopedited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz edited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz (1997)
"The use of a calcium-channel blocker, nicardipine, for severely asphyxiated newborn infants. Develop Med Child Neurol 32:567-574, 1990. 16. ..."

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