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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chloroform \Chlo"ro*form\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chloroformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chloroforming.] To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
Chloroform \Chlo"ro*form\, n. [Chlorine + formyl, it having been regarded as a trichloride of this radical: cf. F. chloroforme, G. chloroform.] (Chem.) 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 an[ae]sthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"trichloromethane," volatile liquid used as an anaesthetic, 1835, from French chloroforme, a hybrid coined 1834 by French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884) from chlor-, comb. form meaning "chlorine" + formique "formic (acid)" (see formic (adj.)). As a verb, from 1848, the year its anaesthetic properties were discovered. Related: Chloroformed.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic. vb. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.
WordNet
n. a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic" [syn: trichloromethane]
v. anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"
Wikipedia
Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula C H Cl. It is a colorless, sweet-smelling, dense liquid that is produced on a large scale as a precursor to PTFE and refrigerants, but the latter application is declining. It is one of the four chloromethanes and a trihalomethane.
This page provides supplementary chemical data on chloroform.
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On 30 April 2013, the band performed the song on Late Show with David Letterman during the Live on Letterman webcast that also featured performances of several of their other songs.
Usage examples of "chloroform".
Temporary relief may be given by administering one-quarter of a grain of morphine, or ten to twenty drops of chloroform in a teaspoonful of glycerine, slightly diluted, taken in one dose.
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Frogs, curarized or chloroformed, are given them, and the experiment which has been fully explained and demonstrated by the professor, is performed by them as far as practicable.
He was chloroformed and placed in the lithotomy position, his buttocks brought to the edge of the bed, and after dilatation of the sphincter, by traction with the fingers and tooth-forceps, the horn was extracted.
No doubt Doelen chloroformed her and put her to bed and gave her a dose of diplococcus intracellularis.
The th-iso-lysergic acid N,N-diethyl amide which remains absorbed on the alumina column as the second fluorescent zone is removed from the column by elution with chloroform.
I understood now how it was the cat had howled until I chloroformed it.
Irishman of fifty-five who, without apparent cause, was affected with a painful priapism which lasted six weeks, and did not subside even under chloroform.
In the most complete laboratory for vivisection of the present time--in the Rockefeller Institute, for example--no scientist could drive a dog INTO A FRENZY while it lies absolutely unconscious under the influence of chloroform!
The remaining acid watery liquid, holding the other alkaloids in solution or suspension, is made strongly alkaline with soda, mixed with four or five times its bulk of ether, chloroform, or benzole, briskly shaken, and left to rest.
It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.
Chloroform was administered to excise a portion of the necrosed bone and death ensued.
Some were airborne now, a few, the great majority still chloroformed in roosting posture, suspended in their self-enfolding fur.
Zoe watched, wide eyed with alarm, as one of the female guards prepared a cotton wool pad with chloroform then stood over her where she lay strapped down and helpless.
Incubae and succubae, the shriek of the mandrake root pulled from the ground which drove a man mad if he heard it, chloroform a decoy of Satan, smallpox a visitation of God: all those, and many more, he could believe that he would not have believed, but would have stood forth, as he was submerged now, in Reason.