saline
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈseɪlaɪn/
- Specialized
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suero fisiológico
- The wound is irrigated 12 hours later and covered with a damp saline gauze dressing.
- normal saline
- 0.9% saline
- physiological saline
Like how how a saline drip can mask performance enhancing drug.
- Like how how a saline drip can mask performance enhancing drug.
- I have bought myself a mini saline bag.
- Now it was just saline solution the the nasal spray didn't contain any chemicals.
- Then those tears were smelled by male subjects or male subjects got what was essentially the control, which was the saline.
- And of course, you do like the saline, you know, sprays and and the extractions to try to minimize the mucus they have.
- That's salt water inject saline solution in two soldiers telling them it was a powerful painkiller.
Examples
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Let's give him another liter of normal saline and recheck hematocrit.
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The saline is great for overall comfort.
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Would you give saline or would you give blood saline?
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Yeah, just give me like some saline or anything.
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You need saline solution, not water.
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And so my parents every day were giving him saline shots to make sure he was hydrated.
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Specimens were kept moist with normal saline throughout preparation and testing.
Academic text (1991) -
I need more saline.
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I need some saline.
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The doctor prepared a saline solution to help rehydrate the patient after surgery.
Synonyms
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3.3
Salt water that doctors use to clean wounds or put into a vein to give fluid
A liquid with the same salt level as body fluids like blood so cells keep their normal shape
Compounds
- Specialized
5
3.3
Salt water that doctors use to clean wounds or put into a vein to give fluid
How Salty
Surface Forms
Morphology
saline = salt (semi-transparent) = sal + ine
The meaning 'salty' is clear, but the root appears as 'sal-' (a Latin combining form) rather than the modern English word 'salt', and the suffix '-ine' is a less familiar adjectival/chemical ending.
Etymology
Saline comes from an old Latin root sal that means 'salt'. So, as a noun, saline is literally 'salt water' used in medicine to clean wounds or give fluids into the body.