RESORCIN
\ɹɪzˈɔːsɪn], \ɹɪzˈɔːsɪn], \ɹ_ɪ_z_ˈɔː_s_ɪ_n]\
Definitions of RESORCIN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.
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A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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r[=e]-sor'sin, n. a colourless crystalline phenol.--adj. RESOR'CINAL.--n. RESOR'CINISM. [Fr.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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A crystalline principle, C6H4 (OH)2: antiseptic and antipyretic.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Metadihydroxybenzene, C6H4 (OH)2, occurring as large colorless or slightly yellowish rhombic prisms or tabular crystals, of very sweet but afterward irritating taste; used as an antiseptic, a topical stimulant, and an antipyretic. In poisonous doses it causes epileptoid convulsions.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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tinctura quininae ammoniata
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