DMSO
Americanabbreviation
Etymology
Origin of DMSO
1960–65; d(i)m(ethyl) s(ulf ) o(xide)
Example Sentences
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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 ● Aug. 20, 2022
Researchers led by William Dichtel and Brittany Trang, chemists at Northwestern University, studied numerous recipes involving DMSO.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 17, 2022
Right: pregnant mice received BMS493 or the vehicle DMSO.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
"We have tentative permission to use DMSO," he says, "but how do you get a drug company to release it?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Is DMSO, as its supporters stubbornly claim, "the aspirin of the 21st century"?
From Time Magazine Archive
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