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Definition of Deodorants
1. deodorant [n] - See also: deodorant
Medical Definition of Deodorants
1. Agents that remove, correct, repress, or mask undesirable odours. In personal hygiene, deodorants are often astringent preparations that reduce sweat production and are referred to as antiperspirants. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deodorants
Literary usage of Deodorants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Veterinary Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Kenelm Winslow (1905)
"Disinfectants, Antiseptics and deodorants. Disinfectants, or germicides, are
agents which destroy the micro-organisms, causing infectious and contagious ..."
2. A Text-book of Physics and Chemistry for Nurses by Andrew Richard Bliss, Alfred Henderson Olive (1916)
"Many disinfectants are also good deodorants. Simple deodorants are rarely germicidal.
An antiseptic is a substance which prevents or arrests the growth of ..."
3. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... sulphate and calcium oxide i unslaked lime) in ten parts of water gives a
precipitate which is one of the most efficient deodorants and disinfectants. ..."
4. Text-book of Hygiene: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Principles and by George Henry Rohé, Albert Robin (1908)
"ANTISEPTICS, DISINFECTANTS AND deodorants. MUCH confusion exists in the popular
mind, and even among physicians, as to the exact meaning of the terms at the ..."
5. A Manual for Health Officers by Joseph Scott MacNutt (1915)
"HOUSEHOLD DISINFECTANTS AND deodorants A number of commercial preparations are
sold as "household disinfectants," being alleged to free the house in a ..."
6. A Text-book of Sanitary and Applied Chemistry: Or, The Chemistry of Water by Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey (1906)
"... CHAPTER IX DISINFECTANTS, ANTISEPTICS, AND deodorants SINCE the health of the
body depends so largely upon sanitary surroundings, it is important to ..."
7. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"... dressed with antiseptics and deodorants. If painful, the lesions must be
sprinkled with some analgesic that gives long-continued relief. ..."
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