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Definition of Chalybeate
1. Adjective. Containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron.
Definition of Chalybeate
1. a. Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
2. n. Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
Definition of Chalybeate
1. Adjective. Flavored with mineral salts ¹
2. Noun. A mineral water that was a voguish general remedy during the 17th-19th century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chalybeate
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Medical Definition of Chalybeate
1. An obsolete term for impregnated with or containing iron salts and for a therapeutic agent containing iron. Origin: G. Chalyps (chalyb-), steel (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalybeate
Literary usage of Chalybeate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The elements of materia medica and therapeutics by Jonathan Pereira (1842)
"Most mineral waters contain this metal, but the term chalybeate is not applied
to them ... chalybeate waters are of two kinds, carbonated and sulphated. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"7} Honk, probably gneiss \ 43J After having bored to this depth, the water rose
to about the surface of the island, and was strongly chalybeate; but as they ..."
3. A New Medical Dictionary: Including All the Words and Phrases Used in by George Milbry Gould (1890)
"chalybeate Springs, in Van Buren County, Arkansas. chalybeate and Saline Springs
are found in Putnam, Warren, Jackson, Clarke, Floyd, am Scott Counties, ..."
4. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"chalybeate waters have a separate place in all the classifications cited in this
... SPA, in Belgium, which may be considered a typical alkaline chalybeate, ..."
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