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carbolic

noun
car·​bol·​ic | \ kär-ˈbä-lik How to pronounce carbolic (audio) \

Definition of carbolic

: phenol sense 1

Examples of carbolic in a Sentence

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 But Lister lives into his own fame, and there was this carbolic-acid popularity explosion and kinds of funny things happen. — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, "The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian Surgery," 22 Oct. 2017

First Known Use of carbolic

1884, in the meaning defined above

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carbolic

noun
car·​bol·​ic | \ kär-ˈbäl-ik How to pronounce carbolic (audio) \

Medical Definition of carbolic

: phenol sense 1

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