| potash |
impure potassium carbonate.
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| potassic |
containing potash.
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| potassium |
a metallic element of the alkali group, many of whose salts are used in medicine. It is a soft, silver-white metal, melting at 58° F; atomic number, 19; atomic weight, 39.102; specific gravity, 0.87. Potassium is the chief cation of muscle and most other cells (intracellular fluid); see also sodium-potassium pump, under pump.
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| potassium a. |
[USP] alum prepared with the addition of potassium; used topically as an astringent.
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| potassium and sodium p. |
any of various preparations containing both sodium and potassium phosphate in some combination of the monobasic and dibasic salts of each; used as an electrolyte replenisher, urinary acidifier, and antiurolithic.
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