Definitions for salines

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salines sa·line

Spelling: [sey-leen, -lahyn]

IPA: /ˈseɪ lin, -laɪn/

Salines is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in salines (aeilnss).

Definitions for salines

noun

1. a sterile solution of sodium chloride used to dilute medications or for intravenous therapy.
2. salty water; a salty solution.

adjective

1. of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike:
2. of or relating to a chemical salt, especially of sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc., as used as a cathartic.
3. of or relating to a method of abortion involving injection of hypertonic saline solution into the amniotic cavity during the second trimester.

Origin of salines

1400-50; Middle English: composed of salt Latin salīnus salty, equivalent to sal sal + -īnus -ine¹

Examples for salines

Discouting the gross factor of swimming in that saline cesspool, there are some awesome images.

The walls are built of a sort of clay glittering with saline incrustations.

Sales and rents of saline lands, produced an income of $4,636.

Each subject went through this process twice, once being given a saline vial, once a vial of actual tears.

The residue is of a brown color, and has a saline, bitter taste.

Water replete with saline particles, as brine-pickle for salt meat.

His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks.

I had saline mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb me so I could endure the zapping.

A nurse at saline Memorial Hospice, she was leaving work when her ex-boyfriend fatally shot her before turning the gun on himself.

I've treated the burns, and a saline drip is taking care of the other.