| galvanocaustic | Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine. Origin: Galvanic + caustic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bunsen burner | A small, widely-used piece of laboratory equipment which produces an adjustable gas flame for the purposes of heating chemical reactions and the short-term sterilisation of other small pieces of laboratory equipment. (09 Oct 1997) |
| burner | 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc, where the flame is produced. <chemistry> Bunsen's burner, a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See Argand, Rose, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| burner syndrome | <syndrome> Multiple episodes of upper extremity burning pain, sometimes accompanied by shoulder girdle weakness, experienced during contact sports, especially football, with each forceful blow to the head or shoulder; attributed to an upper trunk brachial plexopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |