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A diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine
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mannitol
Word definitions for mannitol in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine [syn: Osmitrol ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mannitol , also known as mannite or manna sugar , is a white, crystalline solid that looks and tastes sweet like sucrose . Medically it is used to treat increased intracranial pressure . It also has several industrial uses. In plants its purpose is to alleviate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound English) a polyhydroxy alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, used as an artificial sweetener
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mannitol \man"ni*tol\, n. [Mannite + -ol.] (Chem.) A white crystalline hexose ( HO.CH (CHOH)4.CH2.OH ) of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash ( Fraxinus ornus ); -- called also mannite , and hydroxy hexane . ...
Usage examples of mannitol.
We found a rolling tray and a power hitter in the kitchen and a bottle of mannitol in the medicine cabinet.
The intracranial pressures were holding steady, with the help of intravenous Mannitol and Lasix, as well as forced hyperventilation.
Two pharmaceutically brown bottles on top, procaine and mannitol, dental anesthetic and baby laxative.
In ER they had shrink-wrapped his brain down to three-quarters its size by running a half liter of concentrated mannitol through it.
Remember you’ll need glucose, lactose, dulcitol, sucrose, mannitol, maltose, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, and one tube for indole production.
He was fifty and a Colonel of Infantry in the Army of the United States and to pass a physical examination that he had to take the day before he came down to Venice for this shoot, he had taken enough mannitol hexanitrate to, well he did not quite know what to—to pass, he said to himself.