surgical spirit

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Noun

surgical spirit (usually uncountable, plural surgical spirits)

  1. (UK, medicine) Ethanol with small quantities of additives (typically 2% castor oil and 0.5% methyl salicylate), used primarily as a topical antiseptic.

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