argentum (ar-jen'tum)

Latin for silver. argent i nitras. Nitrate of silver [U. S. Ph., Br. Ph.]. argent i nitras fusum, argent i nitras fusus. Fused nitrate of silver; generally prepared in the form of sticks with 4 per cent, of hydrochloric acid [U. S. Ph.]. argent i nitras induratus. Toughened caustic, made by fusing together 95 parts of silver nitrate and 5 of pota ium nitrate [Br. Ph.], argent i nitras mitigatus. Diluted, or mitigated, silver nitrate; the mitigated stick. A preparation consisting of nitrate of silver and pota ium nitrate fused together and cast in molds [U. S. Ph., Br. Ph.]. argent i oxidum. > Silver oxid (monoxid) [U. S. Ph.]. a. puriflcatum, a. puri imum, a. purum. Pure metallic silver, adapted for pharmaceutical and medicinal purposes. In cla ical Latin a. purum meant silver without figures or raised work upon it. The metal is used in medicine in the form of silver wire for a suture material, and silver leaf as a surgical dre ing. [Allied to Gr., argos, white, and this to Sansk., ardjuna, white, and radjata, silver, both from the root radj, to shine.]