See Also: tetrachlorethylene(medicine)

ringed (iou) and tetrachlorethylene (medicine)


ringed (iou)



ringed adjective. OE.
[from RING noun1, verb2: see -ED1, -ED2.]
Of armour: made of rings. rare. OE.
a. (Of a person) wearing a ring or rings on the fingers; (of the fingers etc.) adorned with a ring or rings. LME.
A. Lurie A bulky man with..plump white ringed hands.
b. Of a bird: bearing a ring or rings on one or both legs. E20.
Marked or encircled (as) by a ring or rings. E16.
a. Having the form of a ring. L16.
b. Zoology. Composed of rings or ringlike segments. Now rare. M19.
Special collocations: ringed dove = ring-dove s.v. RING noun1. ringed perch the American yellow perch, Perca flavescens. ringed plover either of two small plovers having a black ring across the chest, Charadrius hiaticula and the smaller C. dubius. ringed seal an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, with irregular ring-shaped markings. ringed snake = ring-snake s.v. RING noun1. ringed thrush = ring ouzel s.v. RING noun1.

tetrachlorethylene (medicine)


tetrachlorethylene


An anthelmintic against hookworm and Other nematodes.

Synonym: carbon dichloride, ethylene tetrachloride, tetrachloroethylene.