CERATE
\sˈɛɹe͡ɪt], \sˈɛɹeɪt], \s_ˈɛ_ɹ_eɪ_t]\
Definitions of CERATE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
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An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A composition of wax, oil, or lard, without other ingredients.
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It is applied as an emollient to excoriations, &c. See Ceratum Cetacei.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Generically, a pharmaceutical preparation consisting of a mixture of oil or lard with wax, and used either alone or as a basis for the application of medicines. For the wax, resin or spermaceti is frequently substituted, although, properly, the term cerate embraces only preparations made with wax.
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Specifically, of the U. S. Ph., simple cerate. The medicated cerates are mentioned under their respective medicating heads. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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