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β-blocker

β-blocker is the abbreviation of beta blocker.

Meaning of beta blocker

Noun

beta blocker (plural beta blockers)

  1. A blocking agent, one of a class of drugs used to treat hypertension and control the rate at which the heart beats.

Forms of β-blocker

pluralβ-blockers

Questions about β-blocker

What is β-blocker the abbreviation of?
Β-blocker is the abbreviation of beta blocker.

Words near β-blocker in the dictionary

  1. β error
  2. β errors
  3. β-amino acid
  4. β-amino acids
  5. β-antithrombin
  6. β-blocker
  7. β-blockers
  8. β-carotene
  9. β-glucan
  10. β-glucans
  11. β-hydroxyisovalerylshikonin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: β-blocker (page history and authors); beta blocker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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