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orthocaines

orthocaines is the plural of orthocaine.

Meaning of orthocaine

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

Questions about orthocaines

What is orthocaines the plural of?
Orthocaines is the plural of orthocaine.

Words near orthocaines in the dictionary

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

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