1. A heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator
   "The patient took glyceryl trinitrate tablets to relieve chest pain";
   - nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, nitro

Type of: nitrate, vasodilative, vasodilator

Part of: blasting gelatin, cordite, dynamite, Nitrospan, Nitrostat

Encyclopedia: Glyceryl trinitrate