saline

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We found the water saline, as is usual with desert springs.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or containing salt; salty.
  2. adjective Of or relating to chemical salts.
  3. noun A salt of magnesium or of the alkalis, used in medicine as a cathartic.
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  • I thoroughly cleaned the wound with sterile saline, then snipped away the ragged skin with sterile scissors. —  Steven Gould - Wildside (v2.1)
  • Flush with saline -- Mix baking soda 2 to 1 with salt and flush that through your nose and throat. —  Bike Hugger
  • I use my glove (Castelli) thumb snot cloth & blow alot of rockets woodswittdealy -- saline nasal irrigation before & after ride. —  Bike Hugger
  • Corrales RM, Pflugfelder SC (2005) Hyperosmolar saline is a proinflammatory stress on the mouse ocular surface. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • At present, lakes varying in composition from very dilute to highly saline are at. or near, an equilibrium with the atmospheric CO 2. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Latin salīnus, from sāl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) salin = Spanish Portuguese Italian salino, from Latin salinus (found only in neuter salinum, salt-cellar, and plural feminine salinæ, salt-pits: see saline, n.), from sal, salt: see salt and sal.
 

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