noun
Usage: usually capitalized C&D
Etymology: after Alexis Carrel died 1944 French surgeon and biologist, and Henry Drysdale Dakin died 1952 English chemist
: an antiseptic treatment of wounds in World War I consisting of regular intermittent irrigation through surgically placed rubber tubes to obviate infection in contaminated wounds and to hasten asepsis in suppurating wounds — compare carrel-dakin solution , dakin's solution