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chlorexidine

chlorexidine is the alternative form of chlorhexidine.

Meaning of chlorhexidine

Noun

chlorhexidine (uncountable)

  1. A particular chemical antiseptic and bacteriostatic.

Questions about chlorexidine

What is chlorexidine the alternative form of?
Chlorexidine is the alternative form of chlorhexidine.

Words near chlorexidine in the dictionary

  1. chlorenchyma
  2. chlorenchymatous
  3. chlorethoxyfos
  4. chloretone
  5. chlorexidin
  6. chlorexidine
  7. chlorfenamidine
  8. chlorfenapyr
  9. chlorfenazole
  10. chlorfenvinfos
  11. chlorfenvinphos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chlorexidine (page history and authors); chlorhexidine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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