Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to concentrated nitro-glycerin, especially as used in medicine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Same as
Nitroglycerin ; -- called alsooil of glonoin . - noun (Med.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.
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- noun medicine, archaic
nitroglycerine when used medicinally
Etymologies
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Examples
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Griswold 15.181 records a successful treatment of one case in a man of fifty, occurring after a debauch, by the administration of glonoin, 1/150 of a grain every three hours.
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Griswold records a successful treatment of one case in a man of fifty, occurring after a debauch, by the administration of glonoin, 1/150 of a grain every three hours.
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"A little pin-head of glonoin on his tongue for a beginning," decided the physician, opening his case.
The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand 1895
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"Another glonoin, and then we'll start in to wake up our friend," said the young doctor in white duck, after a pause.
The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand 1895
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For the liquid in the tumbler and in the syringe that the physician carefully filled was now a solution of glonoin, the most powerful heart stimulant known to medical science.
Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886
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