| flexible collodion | A mixture of camphor, castor oil, and collodion, or a mixture of castor oil, Canada turpentine, and collodion, used for the same purposes as collodion, but its film possesses the advantage, for certain conditions, of not contracting. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| flexible | 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. "When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks." (Shak) 2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. "Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people." (Bacon) "Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible." (Shak) 3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. "This was a principle more flexible to their purpose." (Rogers) Synonym: Pliant, pliable, supple, tractable, manageable, ductile, obsequious, inconstant, wavering. Flex"ibleness, Flex"ibly. Origin: L. Flexibilis: cf. F. Flexible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blistering collodion | A powdered chloroform extract of cantharides in flexible collodion; a vesicant. Synonym: blistering collodion, collodion vesicans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cantharidal collodion | A powdered chloroform extract of cantharides in flexible collodion; a vesicant. Synonym: blistering collodion, collodion vesicans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| collodion | <chemical> A nitrocellulose solution in ether and alcohol. Collodion has a wide range of uses in industry including applications in the manufacuture of photographic film, in fibres, in lacquers, and in engraving and lithography. In medicine it is used as a drug solvent and a wound sealant. Pharmacological action: pharmaceutic aid, tissue adhesives. Chemical name: Cellulose, nitrate (12 Dec 1998) |
| collodion baby | A newborn child with lamellar ichthyosis; at birth, the skin is bright red, shiny, translucent, and drawn tight, giving a distorted appearance (as if having been painted with collodion) of immobilization of the face; contraction of the skin causes ectropion, a pressed down appearance of the nose, and a gaping of the mouth and the labia; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| collodion vesicans | A powdered chloroform extract of cantharides in flexible collodion; a vesicant. Synonym: blistering collodion, collodion vesicans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemostatic collodion | Tannic acid in flexible collodion; an astringent and local haemostatic. Synonym: haemostatic collodion, styptic colloid, xylostyptic ether. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salicylic acid collodion | A keratolytic agent used in the treatment of corns and verrucae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| styptic collodion | Tannic acid in flexible collodion; an astringent and local haemostatic. Synonym: haemostatic collodion, styptic colloid, xylostyptic ether. (05 Mar 2000) |
| iodised collodion | A 5% solution of iodine in flexible collodion; a counterirritant. (05 Mar 2000) |