cocktail

cocktail
A mixture that includes several ingredients or drugs.
- Brompton c. a c. of morphine and cocaine usually used for analgesia in terminal cancer patients; the formulations vary, but typically it contains 15 mg of morphine hydrochoride and 10 mg of cocaine hydrochloride per 10 ml of the c.. [Brompton Chest Hospital, London, England, where developed]
- Philadelphia c. SYN: Rivers c..
- Rivers c. an intravenous slow injection of from 1000 to 2000 ml of 10% dextrose in isotonic saline to which thiamine hydrochloride and 25 units of insulin are added; used in acute alcoholism. SYN: Philadelphia c..

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cock·tail 'käk-.tāl n a mixture of agents usu. in solution that is taken or used esp. for medical treatment or diagnosis <a potent \cocktail of antiretroviral drugs (Zia Jaffrey)> <chemotherapy \cocktails to treat cancer (J. L. Swerdlow)>

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cock·tail (kokґtāl) a beverage concocted of various ingredients.

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  • cocktail — (n.) first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most persuasive is Fr. coquetier egg cup (15c.; in English cocktay). In New Orleans, c.1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud… …   Etymology dictionary

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