orthocaine
English
Noun
orthocaine (countable and uncountable, plural orthocaines)
- Methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds.
- 2005, Walter Sneader, Drug Discovery: A History, →ISBN, page 128:
- Einhorn immediately sent one of his phenolic compounds, orthocaine, to Farbwerke Hochst in 1896.
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