I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
solution
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Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.
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The mucosal surface was rinsed with ice cold isotonic saline solution .
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Saab claim that 78 degrees centigrade of heat can be stored in a saline solution for up to three days.
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Again he had injected a saline solution into the Doctor's blood vessels.
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Alternatively, by conditioning in a physiologically isotonic saline solution , it can remain at a constant size.
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A saline solution is handy as a useful eye-bath or anti-septic gargle.
water
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It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers.
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A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water .
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Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.
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Beneath lies a mass of slightly warmer, more saline water some 600 m deep.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers.
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Mucosal resistance was similar in the three groups when the acid challenge was given after saline pretreatment.
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No patient received forced saline diuresis.
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Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.
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The man with the bright eyes needed a saline drip.
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This must be corrected first, using a normal saline infusion.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A useful treatment method is the potent loop diuretic, furosemide, along with the hypertonic saline .
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By design, the solute concentration of isotonic saline is the same as that in usual intracellular and extracellular fluid.
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Fluid losses should be replaced with normal saline .
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This is the same amount of solute contained in the 3 L normal saline given in the last example.
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Volume deficits should be restored by administration of normal saline .