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orthocaine

orthocaine noun: methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds.

Noun

orthocaine (countable and uncountable, plural orthocaines)

  1. Methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds.
    • Einhorn immediately sent one of his phenolic compounds, orthocaine, to Farbwerke Hochst in 1896.2005, Walter Sneader, Drug Discovery: A History, →ISBN, page 128

Forms of orthocaine

pluralorthocaines

Origin of orthocaine

From ortho- + -caine.

Questions about orthocaine

What does orthocaine mean?
Orthocaine means methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds.
What part of speech is orthocaine?
Orthocaine is a noun.
What is the plural of orthocaine?
The plural of orthocaine is orthocaines.

Words near orthocaine in the dictionary

  1. orthobro
  2. orthobros
  3. orthobunyaviral
  4. orthobunyavirus
  5. orthobunyaviruses
  6. orthocaine
  7. orthocaines
  8. orthocarbonate
  9. orthocarbonates
  10. orthocarbonic acid
  11. orthocardia

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