salvarsan

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salvarsan (countable and uncountable, plural salvarsans)

  1. (medicine) The organoarsenic compound arsphenamine, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and the first effective antibiotic developed against any bacterial illness.

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Borrowed from German Salvarsan.

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salvarsan n (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) salvarsan

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