GUTTA PERCHA
\ɡˈʌtə pˈɜːt͡ʃə], \ɡˈʌtə pˈɜːtʃə], \ɡ_ˈʌ_t_ə p_ˈɜː_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of GUTTA PERCHA
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A dried milky juice, the produce of a large forest-tree growing in the Eastern Archipelago, much used in the arts and for industrial purposes.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The concrete juice of a tree-Isonandra gutta- which is indigenous in Singapore and its vicinity, and belongs to the Natural Order Sapotaceae. Plunged in boiling water it softens, when it may be moulded like caoutchouc to any form, which it retains on cooling. Splints and other instruments have been made of it. A solution of gutta percha in chloroform-Trau. maticine- has been used with advantage, topically, in various cutaneous affections, scrofulous and indolent ulcers, and as an ectrotic in smallpox.
By Robley Dunglison
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