lunar caustic

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing and as a disinfectant before modern antibiotics. obsolete,uncountable
    — However, the doctor soon relieved his sufferings, though the treatment was severe; nothing short of an application of lunar caustic allayed the inflammation.

词源

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