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topical
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Word definitions for topical in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "pertaining to a place;" see topic + -al (1). Medical sense "applied to a particular part of the body" is from c.1600. Meaning "of or pertaining to topics of the day" is from 1873. Related: Topically .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of current interest; contemporary. 2 local to a particular place 3 (context medicine not comparable English) applied to a localized part of the body. 4 arranged according to topic or theme; thematic. n. (context pharmacology English) A topical anaesthetic. ...
Usage examples of topical.
All but one were healing, and I applied a topical anesthetic to the one that had become slightly stiff and inflamed.
From a wiry old woman with mud-brown skin, he mastered the botanical secrets of the land, learning how to make curare from strychnos vines, malarial prophylaxes from cinchona bark, barbasco insect repellent, and a topical painkiller from waxy red genipa berries.
An application of the topical antibiotic hydrocortisone relieved the itch .
The boy had thrust a leaflet toward her, but she had refused to take it, remembering the warnings about paper impregnated with topical hallucinogens or surfactant vomitants, and a moment later was bundled inside by an angry cop.
Hatch reached for his bag, rummaged inside, irrigated the cut with saline solution and Betadine, then smeared on some topical antibacterial ointment.
Vigor brand Russian-made condoms, a few soiled, dogeared cards from less-than-reputable Moscow clubs known for the sexual hijinks that took place in private back rooms--Tarnapolsky had a small collection of such cartes de vi site--and, the crowning touch, a half-used tube of ointment customarily used to treat the topical manifestation of certain more benign sexually communicable diseases.
Cleaned up reasonably well, filled with broad spectrum antibiotics, antimycotics and antivirals, his arm and back sprayed with a light topical anesthetic and his system responding to a mild hypospray restorative, Riker had to admit the time taken was well spent.
Cleaned up reas onably well, filled with broad spectrum antibiotics, antimycotics and antivirals, his arm and back sprayed with a light topical anesthetic and his system responding to a mild hypospray restorative, Riker had to admit the time taken was well spent.
These include: (1) significant anomalies throughout the neocortical regions and topical convolutionary conduits, (2) structural anomalies in the vascular and neural networks of the infundibulum, the pyramidal tracts, and the hippocampus, (3) pineal insufficiency, and (4) reticular imbalance of the pons and attendant cerebellar pathways.
It's just a dressed-up topical version of all those old swindles where a man has a machine that prints dollar bills or a formula for making diamonds.
The actors tossed in several topical ad libs which did little to improve the general mood.
It's even topical for the '90s, in that its central character, Rick Luban, is a juvenile delinquent and a functionally illiterate product of our modern education system.
He sighed, knelt in the soft leafmeal of the shadowed clearing, and reached for the topical anesthetic.
The device of transferring contemporary anomalous states of things to an imaginary world on the Moon, forgotten valleys or the future, in order to subject them to a hard-hearted scrutiny in the disguise of overstatement, is still used in science fiction, but whereas the Moon-and-Forgotten-Valley satires dealt with contemporary problems, the science fiction author of today particularly works with subjects of a social, political or scientific nature that are likely to become topical in the near or foreseeable future.
Topical satire, evidently, thought Doyle—for he'd seen a clown on stilts several times during the course of the morning, here and there around the market, and this puppet was a duplicate of him, right down to the somewhat nightmarish patterns of face paint.