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sclerosant

sclerosant noun: a fluid used for sclerosing.

Noun

sclerosant (countable and uncountable, plural sclerosants)

  1. A fluid used for sclerosing.
    1. Especially, a medication used in sclerotherapy.
      • And the solution used in the injections, or sclerosant, can be customized to the color, depth and thickness of a particular patient’s spider veins.2009 September 10, Camille Sweeney, “Removing the Web of Spider Veins”, in New York Times

Forms of sclerosant

pluralsclerosants

Origin of sclerosant

From sclerose + -ant.

Questions about sclerosant

What does sclerosant mean?
Sclerosant means a fluid used for sclerosing.
What part of speech is sclerosant?
Sclerosant is a noun.
What is the plural of sclerosant?
The plural of sclerosant is sclerosants.

Words near sclerosant in the dictionary

  1. scleroproteinaceous
  2. scleroproteins
  3. sclerorhynchid
  4. sclerorhynchids
  5. sclerosal
  6. sclerosant
  7. sclerosants
  8. scleroscope
  9. scleroscopes
  10. sclerose
  11. sclerosed

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