Uranium

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 50

(u-ra'-ne-um). quantivalence II. A metal occurring in pitchblende and other minerals. The nitrate, a freely soluble, astringent salt, and an irritant poison, is used in diabetes and as a throat-spray. Dose gr. -v. Unof. The oxid is employed to give a fluorescent yellow to Uranocoloboma (u-ran-o-kol-o-bo'-mah). Cleft palate.