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saline - use in sentences
Converse of object
- buffer: Use only fresh supplies of buffered formaldehyde solution of the correct concentration ( 4 % in phosphate buffered saline, pH 7.2 to 7.4.
- warm: This is best done with warmed, sterile saline or even tap water.
- use: However in my new place of work they continue to use normal saline for all patients regardless of the diagnosis.
Adjective modifier
- hypertonic: Currently there are several products on the market that use hypertonic saline to spray in the nose.
- heparinised: Once in place, the needle should be checked for proper positioning by manipulation of the femur, and flushed with heparinised saline.
- phosphate-buffered: After this time, the allantoic fluid was harvested, and a series of two-fold dilutions made in phosphate-buffered saline.
- isotonic: Medical Treatment: Continue irrigation with isotonic saline or water until the severe pain of the burn is relieved.
- sterile: The wound may also be cleaned with 0.9 % sterile saline to remove any wound exudate.
- physiological: Cleansing is best carried out by irrigating with physiological saline or ordinary tap water.
Modifies a noun
- lagoon: Create, by the year 2015, 120 ha of saline lagoon.
- drip: She still had a saline drip in, which restricted her movement.
- aquifer: The largest storage space available is in deep saltwater bearing rocks, called saline aquifers.
- infusion: Administration should always be followed by a normal saline infusion to flush the vein.
- intrusion: Controls on saline intrusion in the Crag aquifer of north east Norfolk in an area of drained coastal marshes.
- solution: Use an eye bath with a simple saline solution to wash out your socket.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Polar waters are becoming far less saline, meaning that the " heat pump " effect that draws warm water north is failing.
Noun used with modifier
- heparin: Be very quick to close the common femoral clamp to minimize blood loss and loss of heparin saline.
- %: However in the light of recent concerns 0.9 % saline is more frequently used.
Modifying Another Word
- fully: The area is a predominantly shallow, well flushed, fully saline, partially enclosed, temperate sea.
- highly: Almost two-thirds of his land was covered with water for months and when the water evaporated it left the soil highly saline.
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