Ringer's solution
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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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
Etymology
Origin of Ringer's solution
1890–95; named after Sydney Ringer (1835–1910), English physician
Example Sentences
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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This is a crude method and has been replaced by the U-tube of mercury with connection made to the artery by saline or Ringer's solution.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
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