electragol
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally a trade name.
Noun[edit]
electragol (uncountable)
- (medicine) A colloid preparation of silver.
- 1910, Transactions of the American Surgical Association:
- We injected, however, Paltauf's antistreptococcic serum, and into the veins electragol.
- 1914, Charles Heady Beard, Ophthalmic Surgery; a Treatise on Surgical Operations:
- After irrigations with salt or boric acid solutions and finally electragol, the wound of the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule is closed with a few firm sutures and a bandage applied for from one to two days 'The patient is not confined to bed.
- 1922, Frederick Tice, Practice of Medicine - Volume 10:
- Schilleau and Pasquer report a recovery after the intraspinal injection of electragol, but the nature of the organism was not very satisfactorily demonstrated.