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SALINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("saline" is a kind of...):
isosmotic solution; isotonic solution (a solution having the same osmotic pressure as blood)
Derivation:
salinate (add salt to)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Containing salt
Example:
salty tears
Classified under:
Similar:
salty (containing or filled with salt)
Derivation:
salinity (the relative proportion of salt in a solution)
Context examples:
You can also rinse out your nose, but be sure to use distilled or sterilized water with saline.
(Hay Fever, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
There are different types of laxatives that differ in mechanism of action and potency, including the bulk-producing agents, stool softeners, lubricants, hydrating agents, stimulants, saline laxatives and hyperosmotic agents.
(Laxative, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.
(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
An osmotically neutral fluid generally consisting of 7.5-10% Dextran-40 and 5% human albumin in saline.
(Dextran-Albumin Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
The procedure of instilling saline or other fluids into the amniotic cavity using an intrauterine catheter.
(Amnioinfusion, NCI Thesaurus)
In the study, women with surgically treated endometriosis who were generally taking hormones to suppress menses, but who continued to experience pain and had pelvic floor muscle spasm, initially received injections of botulinum toxin or saline as part of a placebo-controlled clinical trial, targeting areas of spasm.
(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)
This species is catalase and oxidase positive, produces a grayish white pigment, utilizes glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose, but not mannose or lactose, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, synthesizes polysaccharides, and spontaneously agglutinates in saline.
(Neisseria sicca, NCI Thesaurus)
The research is based on examination of the levels of dissolved black carbon (DBC) that persist in freshwater and saline lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a mountainous polar desert across McMurdo Sound from the NSF's logistics hub in Antarctica, McMurdo Station.
(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)
Gopalan tells that the compound, made by using epoxy as a base and incorporating mango leaf extracts in a substrate of amorphous silica, achieved 99 per cent inhibition of corrosion in commercial steel when immersed in a saline medium to mimic seawater.
(Mango leaf extract can stop ships from rusting, SciDev.Net)
A procedure, also known as sonohysterography or saline infusion sonography, using a minimally invasive ultrasound technique to view the inside of the uterus.
(Hysterosonography, NCI Thesaurus)
