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isotonic sodium chloride solution

noun

, Pharmacology.
  1. an aqueous solution of 0.9 percent sodium chloride, isotonic with the blood and tissue fluid, used in medicine chiefly for bathing tissue and, in sterile form, as a solvent for drugs that are to be administered parenterally to replace body fluids.


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Origin of isotonic sodium chloride solution1

First recorded in 1965–70

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