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thropple(1) (iou) and Polyethylene glycols (medicine)


thropple(1) (iou)



thropple noun. . LME.
[Origin unkn.]
The throat; esp. the windpipe or gullet, freq. of a horse or Other animal.
throppled adjective (esp. of a horse) having a thropple, usu. of a specified kind; cock-throppled: see COCK noun1: E17.

Polyethylene glycols (medicine)


polyethylene glycols
<chemical> Alpha-hydro-omega-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyls). Additional polymers of ethylene oxide and water and their ethers. They vary in consistency from liquid to solid, depending on the molecular weight, indicated by a number following the name. Used as surfactants in industry, including foods, cosmetics and pharmaceutics; in biomedicine, as dispersing agents, solvents, ointment and suppository bases, vehicles, tablet excipient. Some specific groups are lauromagrogols, nonoxynols, octoxynols and poloxamers.

Pharmacological action: excipient, pharmaceutic aid, solvents, surface-active agent, vehicles.