xeroform

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English

Noun

xeroform (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A wound dressing consisting of a gauze soaked in a mixture of bismuth tribromophenate and petroleum jelly.

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French xéroforme.

Noun

xeroform n (uncountable)

  1. xeroform

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative xeroform xeroformul
genitive-dative xeroform xeroformului
vocative xeroformule