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prostacycline

prostacycline is the alternative form of prostacyclin.

Meaning of prostacyclin

Noun

prostacyclin (plural prostacyclins)

  1. A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels; it acts as a vasodilator and inhibits the aggregation of platelets

Forms of prostacycline

pluralprostacyclines

Questions about prostacycline

What is prostacycline the alternative form of?
Prostacycline is the alternative form of prostacyclin.

Words near prostacycline in the dictionary

  1. prossies
  2. prossing
  3. prossy
  4. Prost
  5. prostacyclin
  6. prostacycline
  7. prostacyclines
  8. prostacyclins
  9. prostaglandin
  10. prostaglandins
  11. prostaglandinuria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prostacycline (page history and authors); prostacyclin (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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