Ringer's solution

American  

[ring-erz] / ˈrɪŋ ərz /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. an aqueous solution of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium in the same concentrations as normal body fluids, used chiefly in the laboratory for sustaining tissue.

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Ringer's solution British  

/ ˈrɪŋəz /

noun

1. a solution containing the chlorides of sodium, potassium, and calcium, used to correct dehydration and, in physiological experiments, as a medium for in vitro preparations

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Etymology

Origin of Ringer's solution

1890–95; named after Sydney Ringer (1835–1910), English physician

Example Sentences

Both of the regular intravenous solutions administered in medicine, normal saline and lactated Ringer’s solution, are isotonic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is a crude method and has been replaced by the U-tube of mercury with connection made to the artery by saline or Ringer's solution.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall