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Definition of Saline

1. Adjective. Containing salt. "Salty tears"

2. Noun. An isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water.

Definition of Saline

1. a. Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

2. n. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

3. n. A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.

Definition of Saline

1. Adjective. Containing salt; salty. ¹

2. Noun. Water containing dissolved salt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Saline

1. a salt solution [n -S]

Medical Definition of Saline

1. Salty, of the nature of a salt, containing a salt or salts. Origin: L. Salinus, sal = salt This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saline

saligenin saligot saligots salimeter salimeters salimetries salimetry salina period salinas salinate

salinated salinates salinating salination salinations saline (current term) saline agglutinin saline conditions saline evaporite saline evaporites

saline solution saline water salinely salineness salines saliniferous salinification saliniform saliniketal salinise

Literary usage of Saline

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Hoddick has employed the saline infusions without adrenalin, but with no remarkable results. It was very different with injections of f to 1 litre of ..."

2. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"saline RESIDUES. DEPOSITION OF SALTS. When a natural water is concentrated by evaporation, it deposits its saline constituents in the reverse order of their ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"... Serum Type I plus 10 cc. of normal saline solution. 9.15 pm Still sick but not so toxic. Blood culture: 0.5 cc. in broth, ..."

4. Experimental Agriculture: Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1849)
"Circumstances in which saline or mineral applications are likely to produce ... saline substances act most immediately and most efficiently when they are in ..."

5. Adventure Guide to St. Martin & St. Barts by Lynne M. Sullivan (2003)
"Grande saline Beach Le Gommier Grande saline Beach tr 590-27-70-57, fax 590-27-54-32 Creole $$$ Dinner served daily during high season; closed Mondays ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Hoddick has employed the saline infusions without adrenalin, but with no remarkable results. It was very different with injections of f to 1 litre of ..."

7. The Data of Geochemistry by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1908)
"saline RESIDUES. DEPOSITION OF SALTS. When a natural water is concentrated by evaporation, it deposits its saline constituents in the reverse order of their ..."

8. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"... Serum Type I plus 10 cc. of normal saline solution. 9.15 pm Still sick but not so toxic. Blood culture: 0.5 cc. in broth, ..."

9. Experimental Agriculture: Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1849)
"Circumstances in which saline or mineral applications are likely to produce ... saline substances act most immediately and most efficiently when they are in ..."

10. Adventure Guide to St. Martin & St. Barts by Lynne M. Sullivan (2003)
"Grande saline Beach Le Gommier Grande saline Beach tr 590-27-70-57, fax 590-27-54-32 Creole $$$ Dinner served daily during high season; closed Mondays ..."

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