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lunar caustic

lunar caustic noun: silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics.

Noun

lunar caustic (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics.
    • However, the doctor soon relieved his sufferings, though the treatment was severe; nothing short of an application of lunar caustic allayed the inflammation.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78

lunar caustic meaning in Tamil

lunar caustic in Tamil

இறுகிய வெள்ளி நைட்ரேட்

Synonyms of lunar caustic

Origin of lunar caustic

From lunar (“[alchemical] silver”) + caustic.

Questions about lunar caustic

What does lunar caustic mean?
Lunar caustic means silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics.
What is lunar caustic in Tamil?
Lunar caustic in Tamil is இறுகிய வெள்ளி நைட்ரேட். See Lunar caustic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lunar caustic?
Lunar caustic is a noun.

Words near lunar caustic in the dictionary

  1. Lunans
  2. lunar
  3. lunar calendar
  4. lunar calendars
  5. lunar cataclysm
  6. lunar caustic
  7. lunar colonies
  8. lunar colony
  9. lunar cycle
  10. lunar cycles
  11. lunar deities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunar caustic (page history and authors); lunar caustic (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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