Stacks of clean brown boxes surrounding him hold bleach, latex gloves, and masks—weapons against Ebola.
Since waist cinchers are made from latex, they also make you sweat…a lot.
Last year, Browne's mental asylum included pieces of latex, Joker-like make-up, and medical gloves.
From earcuffs to arm parties, hippie-prep to latex, six things you may actually see next Spring.
One option is the vacuum bed or “vacbed,” a platform topped with a latex sheet.
From the latex of the opium poppy the opium of commerce is extracted.
Rubber of various qualities is now made from the latex of the Jelutong tree.
The latex is poured into the dabree, where it naturally coagulates into sheets.
Often a touch is sufficient to upset the balance, and latex is lost.
(g) Nature of transport; agitation of the latex to be reduced to a minimum.
1660s, "body fluid," from Latin latex (genitive laticis) "liquid, fluid," probably from Greek latax "dregs," from PIE root *lat- "wet" (cf. Middle Irish laith "beer," Welsh llaid "mud, mire," Lithuanian latakas "pool, puddle," Old Norse leþja "filth"). Used 1835 to mean "milky liquid from plants." Meaning "water-dispersed polymer particles" (used in rubber goods, paints, etc.) is from 1937. As an adjective by 1954, in place of clasically correct laticiferous.
latex la·tex (lā'těks')
n.
The colorless or milky sap of certain plants, such as the poinsettia, that coagulates on exposure to air.
An emulsion of rubber or plastic globules in water, used in adhesives and synthetic rubber products.
