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collunarium

American

[kol-yuh-nair-ee-uhm] / ˌkɒl jəˈnɛər i əm /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

collunaria

plural

Etymology

Origin of collunarium

< New Latin, equivalent to Latin collu ( ere ) to rinse ( see collutory) + nār ( ēs ) nostrils (akin to nose ) + -ium -ium

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