How to Use nitric oxide in a Sentence

nitric oxide

noun
  • Beets are a source of nitrate, which helps form nitric oxide in the body.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Please tell me how the nasal spray is okay when breathing nitric oxide in the air is harmful.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Your body converts those into nitric oxide, which can help lower blood pressure.
    — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 2 June 2026
  • This is due to the effects of dietary nitrates and their conversion to nitric oxide in the body.
    — Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The endothelial cells release nitric oxide, which helps widen the blood vessels.
    — Amber Sayer, Health, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Panax ginseng extract may also work on nitric oxide production, which boosts blood flow in rats.
    — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Then the acidity in your stomach helps convert the nitrite to nitric oxide.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • From that apogee — the top of the rocket’s arc — the instrument will measure nitric oxide levels.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • One of those, nitric oxide, binds to myoglobin in the presence of heat to lock in the red or pink color — no matter how long the meat cooks.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Beets contain nitrate, which the body converts into nitric oxide.
    — Amy Brownstein, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Beets contain nitrates, which are compounds that your body converts into nitric oxide.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Beets contain nitrates, which are compounds that your body converts into nitric oxide.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 20 Apr. 2026
  • High nitric oxide levels cause blood vessels to widen and relax, leading to more blood flow and a decrease in pressure.
    — Phuoc Anh (anne) Nguyen, Pharmd, Ms, Verywell Health, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Cashews are also rich in arginine, which your body uses to make nitric oxide to expand and contract your blood vessels.
    — Julie Stewart, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Scraping too much can lower the body’s nitric oxide levels and increase the risk of issues like high blood pressure.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • And it has been shown to increase nitric oxide, which expands your blood vessels, enabling you to utilize more oxygen.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Magnify uses nitric oxide to increase blood flow through your vessels.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The body breaks down nitrates into nitric oxide, which helps reduce blood pressure by widening blood vessels.
    — Md Published, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2025
  • His idea was to get cells in blood vessels to make nitric oxide, a substance that dilates blood vessels, but has a half-life of milliseconds.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Beetroot powder is rich in nitrates, which the body converts to nitric oxide—a vasodilator that widens blood vessels.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Beet juice is rich in nitrates, while pomegranate juice may boost nitric oxide production—both of which help relax blood vessels.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 18 May 2026
  • This luscious root vegetable is loaded with natural nitrates that the body converts to nitric oxide.
    — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • This promotes the release of nitric oxide,reducing blood pressure.
    — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • And red blood cells control its levels because, like oxygen, nitric oxide can bind to hemoglobin.
    — Byandrew Zaleski, science.org, 3 July 2024
  • This supplement gives you a huge nitric oxide pump while increasing power, endurance, drive, and focus.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This combination includes unique amino acids that help to generate nitric oxide, which the body uses to manage blood flow.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Some doctors are experimenting with adding nitric oxide to the mix, to help improve blood flow and oxygen to the least damaged parts of the lungs.
    — Mike Stobbe, The Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2020
  • His own research has helped show that even tiny amounts of hemoglobin outside a red cell can cause immense damage by scavenging nitric oxide.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • With higher levels of nitric oxide, blood vessels relax, widen, and blood pressure decreases.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The first uses a mix of platinum and rhodium to pull oxygen atoms away from nitric oxide, creating pure, benign nitrogen.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2022

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