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Yvon's test (medicine)


Yvon's test


For alkaloids; to the suspected solution is added a mixture of bismuth subnitrate, potassium iodide, and hydrochloric acid in water; a positive reaction is indicated by the appearance of a red colour; for acetanilid in the urine; the suspected fluid is extracted with chloroform and heated with yellow nitrate of mercury; if acetanilid is present, the fluid will be green.


cacoethes (iou)



cacoethes noun. M16.
[Latin from Greek kakoethes use as noun of adjective kakoethes ill-disposed, formed as CACO- + ETHOS.]
An evil habit; a passion or 'itch' for doing something inadvisable.
cacoethes scribendi an irresistible desire to write.