cacodylate

[kak-uh-dil-eyt]

noun

1. a salt of cacodylic acid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cacodylate¹

First recorded in 1905–1910; cacodyl(ic) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

A recent method of using the drug is in the form of sodium cacodylate by subcutaneous injection, and this preparation is said to be free from the cumulative effects sometimes arising after the prolonged use of the other forms.

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When we prescribe a cacodylate or an amylarsinate, we are not prescribing an arsenical treatment whose effects can be compared with those of an arsenide, an arsenite, or an arsenate.

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Success has attended the use of a vaccine prepared from cultures of the organism; and the X-rays and radium, combined with the administration of iodides in large doses, or with intra-muscular injections of a 10 per cent. solution of cacodylate of soda, have proved of benefit.

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More than a year afterward hypodermic injections of sodium cacodylate were attempted with apparent success, though the swellings continued.

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