IODOFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iodoform mean? 

• IODOFORM (noun)
  The noun IODOFORM has 2 senses:

1. sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3

2. a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing

  Familiarity information: IODOFORM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IODOFORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

iodoform; tri-iodomethane

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

haloform (compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

iodoform; triiodomethane

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

antiseptic (a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues)

 Context examples 

As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a strange and frightful spectacle—the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men—half-men, I should call them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)