Lexic.us

Definition of Nose drops

1. Noun. Street names for heroin.

Medical Definition of Nose drops

1. A liquid preparation intended for intranasal administration with a medicine dropper. Most frequently used for decongestion of the nasal passages but can be used for any other appropriate indication. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nose Drops

Literary usage of Nose drops

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Cells were obtained from (A) eight guinea pigs immunized with nose drops and ... Respiratory tract lymphocytes from animals given DNP- HGG in nose drops, ..."

2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"A nasal decon- gestant spray, nose drops, a mild vasoconstrictor medication, or an antihistamine taken by mouth may help to alleviate eustachian tube ..."

3. The Concordance Repertory of the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia by William Daniel Gentry (1892)
"... nose drops of b. come out. Bov. When stooping, b. rushes to tip of nose. Am-c. Bloody.—B., red nostrils. Kali-c. Copious, thin, ichorous and b. ..."

4. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Nosebleed during morning sleep, with vertigo; every time he blows nose drops of blood issue from it or when sneezing. Bromium.—Nosebleed with relief of ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... has a horrible • Auvergnat brogue ; finally, the man loses his arm by entanglement in some Him hiii'TV, and the notary's nose drops off. Rhi'iio-scope. ..."

6. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"nose drops, i. 500. Nose it, ii. 47. Nose out of joint, thrust, i. 613. Nose, talk in the, ii. 56. Nose, under her, i. 195. Noses, cast up their, i. ..."

7. A Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue Concerning Marriage by John Heywood (1906)
"... to suffer the Lacedaemonians to hold their noses to the grindstone."—North, Plutarch (1578), 241. (b) " your nose drops . ..."

8. Diseases of the Nose and Its Accessory Cavities by William Spencer Watson (1875)
"... had very frequently complained of a dull pain in his forehead like that caused by a coryza ; afterwards that he had passed, by the nose, drops of pus. ..."

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