cacodylate

American  

[kak-uh-dil-eyt] / ˌkæk əˈdɪl eɪt /

noun

1. a salt of cacodylic acid.

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Etymology

Origin of cacodylate

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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