: a white powdery salt CaC12H22O14 used especially to supplement bodily calcium stores
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebFirst, the visitors rode to Hospital Metropolitano de la Montaña to drop off the medicine its staff had requested: dopamine, epinephrine, magnesium sulfate, atropine, calcium gluconate, and more. Richard Fausset, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
Word History
First Known Use
1875, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
calcium gluconate
noun
: a white crystalline or granular powdery salt C12H22CaO14 used to supplement bodily calcium stores