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CETRIMIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cetrimide mean? 

CETRIMIDE (noun)
  The noun CETRIMIDE has 1 sense:

1. a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectantplay

  Familiarity information: CETRIMIDE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CETRIMIDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("cetrimide" is a kind of...):

antimicrobial; antimicrobic; disinfectant; germicide (an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease)

cationic detergent; invert soap (a class of synthetic detergents in which the surface-active part of the molecule is the cation)


 Context examples 


This bacteria is nonmotile, catalase and oxidase positive, non-fermentative, indole positive, hydrolyzes starch and can grow on cetrimide agar.

(Chryseobacterium indologenes, NCI Thesaurus)



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