trental Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    pentoxifylline.

WordNet


Tren"tal noun
Etymology
LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913