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di•ach•y•lon
(dī ak′ə lon′),USA pronunciation n. [Med.]
- Medicinean adhesive plaster consisting chiefly of litharge and oil, used in the treatment of wounds and excoriations.
- Late Latin diachȳlōn
- Middle French, both
- Medieval Latin, and Middle English diaquilon
- Greek diáchylōn (something) made of juices, equivalent. to dia- dia- + chylós juice (also Latinized as diachȳlum whence English spelling, spelled with -um); replacing Middle English diaculon
- Latin
- 1275–1325