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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saline
I.adjective
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■ NOUN
solution
▪ Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.
▪ The mucosal surface was rinsed with ice cold isotonic saline solution.
▪ Saab claim that 78 degrees centigrade of heat can be stored in a saline solution for up to three days.
▪ Again he had injected a saline solution into the Doctor's blood vessels.
▪ Alternatively, by conditioning in a physiologically isotonic saline solution, it can remain at a constant size.
▪ A saline solution is handy as a useful eye-bath or anti-septic gargle.
water
▪ It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers.
▪ A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water.
▪ Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.
▪ Beneath lies a mass of slightly warmer, more saline water some 600 m deep.
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▪ It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers.
▪ Mucosal resistance was similar in the three groups when the acid challenge was given after saline pretreatment.
▪ No patient received forced saline diuresis.
▪ Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.
▪ The man with the bright eyes needed a saline drip.
▪ This must be corrected first, using a normal saline infusion.
II.noun
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▪ A useful treatment method is the potent loop diuretic, furosemide, along with the hypertonic saline.
▪ By design, the solute concentration of isotonic saline is the same as that in usual intracellular and extracellular fluid.
▪ Fluid losses should be replaced with normal saline.
▪ This is the same amount of solute contained in the 3 L normal saline given in the last example.
▪ Volume deficits should be restored by administration of normal saline.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saline

Saline \Sa"line\ (? or ?; 277), a. [F. salin, fr. L. sal salt: cf. L. salinae salt works, salinum saltcellar. See Salt.]

  1. Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

  2. Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.

Saline

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.

Saline

Saline \Sal"ine\, n.

  1. (Chem.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. [Written also salin.]

  2. (Med. Chem.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.

  3. (Med., Biochemistry) A saline solution, esp. normal saline, or isotonic saline, used for infusion, to maintain blood pressure.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saline

"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
saline

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.

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WordNet
saline

  1. adj. containing salt; "a saline solution"; "salty tears" [syn: salty]

  2. n. an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water [syn: saline solution]

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Gazetteer
Saline, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000): 296
Housing Units (2000): 133
Land area (2000): 1.184397 sq. miles (3.067575 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.184397 sq. miles (3.067575 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67880
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.164170 N, 92.977127 W
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Saline, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 8034
Housing Units (2000): 3213
Land area (2000): 4.626959 sq. miles (11.983768 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033033 sq. miles (0.085556 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.659992 sq. miles (12.069324 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71140
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.170940 N, 83.779644 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48176
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Saline -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 26733
Housing Units (2000): 12360
Land area (2000): 383.309486 sq. miles (992.766969 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.666633 sq. miles (9.496536 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 386.976119 sq. miles (1002.263505 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.753831 N, 88.540840 W
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Saline, IL
Saline County
Saline County, IL
Saline -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 53597
Housing Units (2000): 22695
Land area (2000): 719.612996 sq. miles (1863.789025 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.666204 sq. miles (4.315448 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 721.279200 sq. miles (1868.104473 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.807979 N, 97.612452 W
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Saline, KS
Saline County
Saline County, KS
Saline -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 23756
Housing Units (2000): 10019
Land area (2000): 755.549580 sq. miles (1956.864345 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 9.036209 sq. miles (23.403673 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 764.585789 sq. miles (1980.268018 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.123835 N, 93.204459 W
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Saline, MO
Saline County
Saline County, MO
Saline -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 13843
Housing Units (2000): 5611
Land area (2000): 575.337229 sq. miles (1490.116520 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.725439 sq. miles (1.878878 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 576.062668 sq. miles (1491.995398 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.545566 N, 97.093987 W
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Saline, NE
Saline County
Saline County, NE
Saline -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 83529
Housing Units (2000): 33825
Land area (2000): 723.461618 sq. miles (1873.756910 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.003032 sq. miles (18.137769 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 730.464650 sq. miles (1891.894679 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.616381 N, 92.636449 W
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Saline County
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Saline

Saline may refer to:

Saline (medicine)

In medicine, saline (also saline solution) is a solution of sodium chloride (NaCl, table salt) in water. It is used to flush wounds and skin abrasions, as eye drops, for intravenous infusion, rinsing contact lenses, nasal irrigation, and a variety of other purposes. Concentrations of salt vary from low to normal to high. High concentrations are used rarely in medicine but frequently in molecular biology. For parenteral (intravenous) application and tissue irrigation, most commonly used is sterile normal saline, containing 9.0 g of salt per liter (0.90%).

Saline (Italian river)

The Saline is a river in the province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of Italy The river is formed by the confluence of the Fino and Tavo rivers. It flows northeast and enters the Adriatic Sea near Montesilvano and the mouth of the Piomba river.

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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.