isotonic sodium chloride solution


nounPharmacology.
  1. an aqueous solution of 0.9 percent sodium chloride, isotonic with the blood and tissue fluid, used in medicine chiefly for bathing tissue and, in sterile form, as a solvent for drugs that are to be administered parenterally to replace body fluids.

Origin of isotonic sodium chloride solution

1
First recorded in 1965–70

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