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Answer for the clue "Salty solution ", 6 letters:
saline

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Word definitions for saline in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"made of salt," c.1500, probably from a Latin word related to salinum "salt cellar" and salinae "salt pits," from sal (genitive salis ) "salt" (see salt (n.)). Also in Middle English as a noun meaning "salt pit" (13c.). Saline solution attested from 1833. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 contain salt; salty. 2 Resembling salt. n. 1 water containing dissolved salt. 2 A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saline \Sa"line\ (? or ?; 277), n. [Cf. F. saline. See Saline , a.] A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Usage examples of saline.

On the other hand, the consideration of the saline matter in waters, the composition of the extract of worts and beers, and the analysis of brewing materials and products generally, belong to the domain of pure chemistry.

Versed drip inserted into the saline bag hung from the gurney, he turned the plastic stopcock to stop the flow: tranquilization, like the intubation, was no longer necessary.

Then, reaching for the stopcock at the base of the liter bag of saline, she turned it clockwise as far as it would go.

Turning toward the Versed drip inserted into the saline bag hung from the gurney, he turned the plastic stopcock to stop the flow: tranquilization, like the intubation, was no longer necessary.

For, it is sometimes developed in the form of a saline efflorescence,--or is a real mineral of sulphureous color--chosen for this purpose.

To bring subjects out of Levantman shock, you let them have a squirt of simple saline in the trigeminal nerve.

I waited until she was getting amoxicillin and saline subcue, and then I placed figure-eight-shaped bandages on each of her wings.

Hatch reached for his bag, rummaged inside, irrigated the cut with saline solution and Betadine, then smeared on some topical antibacterial ointment.

No one died as a result, but several dogs were sick enough to require intravenous drips of saline and glucose to fight dehydration.

In this and in preceding experiments with the hot saline, the animal, THOUGH UNDER SURGICAL ANAESTHESIA, STRUGGLED.

Impressions may be made with blood, dirt, grease or any other foreign matter present on the ridges, or the saline substance emitted by the glands through the ducts or pores which constitute their outlets.

On the other hand, the consideration of the saline matter in waters, the composition of the extract of worts and beers, and the analysis of brewing materials and products generally, belong to the domain of pure chemistry.

We shall hereafter see what excessively small doses of certain organic fluids and saline solutions cause strongly marked inflection.

Guenther one final time, packed him in a bronze box full of concentrated fluorocarbons and enriched saline solution and loaded him onto a truck.

Her blood pressure rose, so she adjusted slightly her intake of saline and gave herself five micrograms of a mood leveler.