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TRENTAL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication; believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and feet
 
 Synonyms: pentoxifylline
 
 See Also: drug

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tren"tal\, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty;
akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See {Three}, and cf.
{Trigintal}.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the
   thirtieth day after death or burial. ``Their trentals and
   their shrifts.'' --Spenser.
2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
 

 

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