saline

In a sentence

Six example sentences with saline, each labelled with its topic.

• The paramedic hung a bag of saline before the ambulance moved, and color returned to the dehydrated hiker's face.

  Medicine

• Cells stored in saline survive the trip to the laboratory, since the fluid matches what surrounds them inside the body.

  Science

• Backpackers carry small bottles of saline to rinse grit from their eyes, since tap supplies abroad are not always safe.

  Travel

• The trainer flushed the cut over the guard's eye with saline before closing it, and he returned for the second half.

  Basketball

• Marathon medical tents keep bags of saline ready for runners who collapse, since the salt solution restores fluids faster than water.

  Fitness

• During the 1832 cholera outbreak a Scottish doctor injected saline into patients, the first time the fluid was used that way.

  History

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