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methanol
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methanol /meth·a·nol/ (meth´ah-nol) methyl alcohol.
meth·a·nol (mth-nôl, -nl)
n.
A colorless, toxic, flammable liquid used as an antifreeze, a general solvent, a fuel, and a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. Also called carbinol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol.
methanol
a mobile, colorless liquid widely used as a solvent; methyl alcohol. A potent poison causing death due to its toxic effect on cardiac muscle. A component of methylated spirit.
methanol Toxicology A polar alcohol used as an industrial solvent miscible with water, ethanol, ether, petroleum derivatives–eg, gasoline, in canned fuel and in antifreeze, where it may be abused as an inebriant by indigent alcoholics; methanol is metabolized to formaldehyde and formate, causing significant metabolic acidosis and optic nerve damage and blindness Toxic range 60-250 ml; as little as 15 ml has been fatal Management Overload Pt with ethanol–which competes with methanol for sites on alcohol dehydrogenase, reducing methanol metabolites and toxicity


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