Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A 10 per-cent. solution of gutta-percha in chloroform, employed like collodion to promote union of the edges of a wound.
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- noun obsolete, surgery A
solution ofgutta-percha inchloroform once used for closingwounds
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Or it may be used in liquor gutta-perchæ (traumaticin), a drachm to the ounce.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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