DMSO

American  

1. dimethyl sulfoxide: a liquid substance, C 2 H 6 OS, used in industry as a solvent and paint and varnish remover; proposed as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory in musculoskeletal disorders.

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DMSO British  

abbreviation

1. dimethylsulphoxide

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Etymology

Origin of DMSO

1960–65; d(i)m(ethyl) s(ulf ) o(xide)

Example Sentences

It won't scale up to industrial treatment, and it uses dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, but these findings will guide future discoveries about what might work.

From Salon

Researchers led by William Dichtel and Brittany Trang, chemists at Northwestern University, studied numerous recipes involving DMSO.

From Science Magazine

Barcoded KCL-22 cells were treated with DMSO, ABL001 or nilotinib.

From Nature

Likewise, heating the T2-γ solvate isolated from a DMSO/acetone mixture for 60 min at 340 K transformed it to a T2-α solvate.

From Nature

The T2-γ polymorph was also found to crystallize from other solvent combinations, such as DMSO/acetone and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone/acetone.

From Nature