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Lunar caustic

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Silver nitrate fused into a stick and used for cauterizing. obsolete, uncountable

    "However, the doctor soon relieved his sufferings, though the treatment was severe; nothing short of an application of lunar caustic allayed the inflammation."

  2. 2
    silver nitrate fused into sticks and formerly used as a caustic wordnet

Etymology

See Luna (“silver in alchemy”) + caustic.

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