Carrel-Dakin treatment
noun
: an antiseptic treatment of wounds in World War I consisting of regular intermittent irrigation through surgically placed rubber tubes to obviate infection in contaminated wounds and to hasten asepsis in suppurating wounds compare carrel-dakin solution , dakin's solution
Word History
Etymology
after Alexis Carrel †1944 French surgeon and biologist, and Henry Drysdale Dakin †1952 English chemist