Definition of Salvarsan

1. Noun. (medicine) An organoarsenic compound that was once used in the treatment of syphilis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salvarsan

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Salvarsan

1. Historic proprietary name for arsphenamine. Origin: L. Salvare, to preserve, + sanitas, health (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salvarsan

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salvage therapies
salvage therapy
salvage yard
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salvageable
salvaged
salvagee
salvagees
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salvagers
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salvaging
salvar kameez
salvarsan (current term)
salvarsans
salvation
salvational
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salvationist
salvationists
salvations
salvatioun
salvative
salvator
salvatories
salvators

Literary usage of Salvarsan

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.) (1919)
"The reaction is apparently caused by or at least aggravated by the retention of salvarsan, due to the presence of a coincident nephritis, whatever may be ..."

2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"The introduction of salvarsan was the direct outcome of the chemo-therapeutic studies of Ehrlich. The substance was prepared by ..."

3. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"The introduction of salvarsan was the direct outcome oí the chemo-therapeutic studies of Ehrlich. The substance was prepared by ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"There are various types of reaction that may develop after the administration of salvarsan. Everyone is familiar with the vasomotor reactions which not ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"thirdly, he adapted the dose of salvarsan or mercury to the individual and was guided by ... Ehrlich and Dreyfus preferred old salvarsan to neo-salvarsan, ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"thirdly, he adapted the dose of salvarsan or mercury to the individual and was guided by the constitutional reaction; and, fourthly, the treatment was ..."

7. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"Until it is definitely established just how far these so-called regional recrudescences are attributable to toxic action of salvarsan and how they may be ..."

8. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"(2) The property saved from extraordinary danger by the voluntary efforts of the salvors. See ADMIRALTY LAW. salvarsan and ..."

9. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"The reaction is apparently caused by or at least aggravated by the retention of salvarsan, due to the presence of a coincident nephritis, whatever may be ..."

10. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"The introduction of salvarsan was the direct outcome of the chemo-therapeutic studies of Ehrlich. The substance was prepared by ..."

11. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"The introduction of salvarsan was the direct outcome oí the chemo-therapeutic studies of Ehrlich. The substance was prepared by ..."

12. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"There are various types of reaction that may develop after the administration of salvarsan. Everyone is familiar with the vasomotor reactions which not ..."

13. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"thirdly, he adapted the dose of salvarsan or mercury to the individual and was guided by ... Ehrlich and Dreyfus preferred old salvarsan to neo-salvarsan, ..."

14. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"thirdly, he adapted the dose of salvarsan or mercury to the individual and was guided by the constitutional reaction; and, fourthly, the treatment was ..."

15. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"Until it is definitely established just how far these so-called regional recrudescences are attributable to toxic action of salvarsan and how they may be ..."

16. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"(2) The property saved from extraordinary danger by the voluntary efforts of the salvors. See ADMIRALTY LAW. salvarsan and ..."

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