iodoform

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3
noun a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing

From iodo- + -form.

Anton Pavlovitch instantly washed his wound with warm water and sublimate, sprinkled iodoform and put on a bandage. — Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov, Maksim Gorky
She came back pale and interesting, and gave her club a paper called "Hospital Days," fragrant with iodoform and Henley's poems. — Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day, Unknown
She came back pale and interesting, and gave her club a paper called "Hospital Days," fragrant with iodoform and Henley's poems. — In Our Town, William Allen White

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