Chloroform
['klɔːrəfɔːm;'klɒr-] or ['klɔrəfɔrm]
Definition
(noun.) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; 'chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic'.
(verb.) anesthetize with chloroform; 'Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them'.
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Definition
(n.) A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.
(v. t.) To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- I have never heard of an explosion in a manhole where this chloroform had been used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is said on the highest authority that in the Crimean War chloroform was administered 25,000 times without a single death, and ether is even safer than chloroform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The chloroform being volatile and very heavy, settled in the box and displaced all the air. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Even lozenges and pastilles are not free from fraud, but have a goodly proportion of narcotics, containing in some cases chloroform, morphine, and ether. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Veratrum viride, lobelia, worm seed, and chloroform were all introduced in the first part of the century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Those more generally employed are--naming them in the order of their first application--nitrous oxide gas, ether, and chloroform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- However, I got around the difficulty by putting a little bottle of chloroform in each box, corked up, with a slight hole in the cork. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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