latex
26
5.4
- noun
- /ˈleɪtɛks/
- Specialized
:
látex
- The objective of this article is to provide a rational approach to managing latex allergy in health care workers.
- latex allergy
- latex gloves
- latex sensitivity
We're bringing it into the country impregnated in rubber or latex in the ground sheets of tents.
- We're bringing it into the country impregnated in rubber or latex in the ground sheets of tents.
- That means you're going to stand a lay down on his stomach as you with latex gloves.
- It is just like Stevie said, if you push the latex or the rubber will work its way around the quarter.
- So when you blow up a balloon, you're essentially putting the contents of your lungs into a latex rubber bag, which is lovely.
- And what that's going to do, it's going to release a lot of that dust and fuzz, and you're probably going to get a lot of that latex on your hands.
- Oh my God, bring by a fake rubber vagina latex vagina that looks very real.
Examples
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Health care workers should become familiar with the clinical signs and symptoms that suggest latex allergy.
Academic text (1998) -
Hands should be washed immediately after latex gloves are removed.
Academic text (1998) -
Photo (black & white): Common latex products used by health care workers.
Academic text (1998) -
Someone was incising the trees with a heavy knife to allow the latex to ooze out.
Fiction book (1995) -
The medical waste, including plastics, glass, paper, and latex, is packaged in containers weighing up to 10 pounds.
Academic text (1995) -
He's wearing latex gloves.
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The tree's bark exuded a milky latex that is harvested for making rubber.
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Some artists prefer to use latex for their paints because it dries quickly.
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She discovered that she had an allergy to latex when using gloves during a procedure.
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.2
A water-based paint that uses latex to make color stay on walls and furniture
How Elastic
- UK
4
1.0
- Specialized
1
2.9
- Specialized
26
5.4
798
1.0
785
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Latex comes from a Latin word latex meaning 'liquid' and is related to lac as in lactose, which means 'milk'. So the plant sap is called latex because it is a 'milky' fluid that can thicken into rubber.