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lunar caustic

noun

, Medicine/Medical, Chemistry.
  1. silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.


lunar caustic

noun

  1. silver nitrate fused into sticks, which were formerly used in cauterizing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunar caustic1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences

Mackenzie considers that croup has its origin in the fauces, and urges the employment of lunar caustic.

Dissolve a drachm of lunar caustic, in half an ounce of pure cold water.

As might have been expected, silver was assigned to Luna or the moon, and in the modern pharmacopœia such terms as lunar caustic and lunar salts still have a place.

The use of nitrate of silver, which in the old days was called lunar caustic, because it had, in a fresh state, a silvery, moon-like sheen, was largely a matter of signatures.

After that they took a chemical called lunar caustic and traced out Alpha Kappa Phi on my chest.

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