Etymology: < Latin dissociānt-em, present participle of dissociāre to dissociateadj.
(See quot. 1883.)
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1883 New Sydenham Soc. LexiconDissociants, a term applied in Microscopy to those agents which have the power to loosen the texture and to separate the elements of the structures which are placed in them, such as ‘Müller's solution.’
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