Definition of Hexamine

1. Noun. (chemistry) an organic polyamine, (CH2)6N4, having a cagelike structure similar to adamantane, prepared from formaldehyde and ammonia; it has many industrial, commercial and scientific uses ¹

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Definition of Hexamine

1. a chemical compound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hexamine

1. An antibacterial agent most commonly used in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Its antibacterial action derives from the slow release of formaldehyde by hydrolysis at acidic pH. Pharmacological action: anti-infective agents, urinary. Chemical name: 1,3,5,7-Tetraazatricyclo(3.3.1.13,7)decane (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexamine

hexamethylenes
hexamethylenetetramine
hexamethylenetetramines
hexamethylmelamine
hexamethylphosphoramide
hexamethylphosphoramide N-demethylase
hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime
hexametre
hexametres
hexametric
hexametrical
hexametrist
hexametrists
hexamidine
hexamidine isethionate
hexamine (current term)
hexamines
hexaminidase
hexamitiasis
hexanchid
hexanchids
hexandria
hexane
hexanedioic acid
hexanediol
hexanediols
hexanes
hexangular
hexanitride
hexanitrides

Literary usage of Hexamine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs by Percy May (1918)
"A large number of other derivatives and additive products of hexamine have been introduced into medicine as urinary antiseptics. ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"hexamine should be given in neutral or slightly alkaline mixtures, and if acid sodium phosphate is necessary to render the urine acid, it should not be ..."

3. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"To destroy the organisms present there is no drug so efficient as hexamine. Its efficiency depends upon the liberation of formaldehyde in the urine ..."

4. A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1902)
"Finally in the hexamine salts all ionization has disappeared ; the solution of hexamine- cobalt nitrite, Co(NHi)>(NOs),, for example, was found to be ..."

5. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"... in the British Pharmacopoeia under the title hexamine, and care is necessary to avoid confusion in this country with a line of pharmaceuticals, powder, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The caustic soda is a protection against prussic acid and hexamine takes out the phosgene. Signal stations, command posts, dressing stations and dugouts for ..."

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