Crossword-Solution: CHLOROFORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chloroform | n. | 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 anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain. |
| Chloroform | v. t. | To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “CHLOROFORM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| METHANE product | 1 answer |
| carminative | 1 answer |
| flavouring agent | 1 answer |
| rubefacient | 1 answer |
| trichloromethane | 2 answers |
| Former anesthetic | 2 answers |
| CHLORODYNE, constituent of | 6 answers |
| preservative | 12 answers |
| ANAESTHETIC | 18 answers |
| analgesic | 37 answers |
| ORGANIC compounds, substance of | 37 answers |
| Deaden | 63 answers |
| Knockout | 76 answers |
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Sentences with CHLOROFORM (5)
But within our father’s lives what changes have there not been? The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity.
But the use of anaesthetics is much older than Albertus Magnus or Papin; for the ancients had their nepenthe and mandragora; the Chinese their mayo, and the Egyptians their hachisch (both preparations of Cannabis Indica), the effects of which in a great measure resemble those of chloroform.
Chloroform he regards as a dangerous innovation, and he always clicks with his tongue when it is mentioned.
Pitezel, he said, had taken his life by lying on the floor and allowing chloroform to run slowly into his mouth through a rubber tube placed on a chair.
War and revolution are the common successors of reform; yet Nanteitei died (of an overdose of chloroform), in quiet possession of the throne, and it was in the reign of the third brother, Nabakatokia, a man brave in body and feeble of character, that the storm burst.
Quotes with CHLOROFORM (3)
He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.
[Queen Victoria had been denouncing the Women's Rights movement] ... And after chloroform was introduced to ease the pains of childbirth, she demanded that it be used on her. Religious and medical conservatives were shocked. They said God had decreed that women must suffer in childbirth as atonement for the sins of Eve. But queen Victoria wouldn't accept this particular anti-woman's-rights dictum. She became one of the first women to use anesthesia during childbirth , and kni…
It is mere nonsense to put pain among the discoveries of science. Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that all the great religions were first preached, and long practiced, in a world without chloroform.