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lunar caustic
noun
Medicine/Medical, Chemistry.
- silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
lunar caustic
noun
- silver nitrate fused into sticks, which were formerly used in cauterizing
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lunar caustic1
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Mackenzie considers that croup has its origin in the fauces, and urges the employment of lunar caustic.
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Dissolve a drachm of lunar caustic, in half an ounce of pure cold water.
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As might have been expected, silver was assigned to Luna or the moon, and in the modern pharmacopœia such terms as lunar caustic and lunar salts still have a place.
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The use of nitrate of silver, which in the old days was called lunar caustic, because it had, in a fresh state, a silvery, moon-like sheen, was largely a matter of signatures.
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After that they took a chemical called lunar caustic and traced out Alpha Kappa Phi on my chest.
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