单词	salinity
释义	salinesa‧line1 /ˈseɪlaɪn/ adjective medical Word Origin WORD ORIGINsaline1 Origin: 1400-1500 Latin salinus, from sal ‘salt’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers. Mucosal resistance was similar in the three groups when the acid challenge was given after saline pretreatment. No patient received forced saline diuresis. Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns. The man with the bright eyes needed a saline drip. This must be corrected first, using a normal saline infusion. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► solution · Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.· The mucosal surface was rinsed with ice cold isotonic saline solution.· Saab claim that 78 degrees centigrade of heat can be stored in a saline solution for up to three days.· Again he had injected a saline solution into the Doctor's blood vessels.· Alternatively, by conditioning in a physiologically isotonic saline solution, it can remain at a constant size.· A saline solution is handy as a useful eye-bath or anti-septic gargle. ► water · It excludes water that will not drain from small pore spaces, saline water, and water in deep confined aquifers.· A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water.· Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.· Beneath lies a mass of slightly warmer, more saline water some 600 m deep. containing or consisting of salt:  saline solution—salinity /səˈlɪnəti/ noun [uncountable]
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