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 Translation for 'eyewash' from English to French
NOUN   an eyewash | eyewashes
SYNO collyrium | eye-lotion | eyewash
trompe-l'œil {m} [fig.] [péj.]eyewash [coll.] [pretentious nonsense]
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Translation for 'eyewash' from English to French

eyewash [coll.] [pretentious nonsense]
trompe-l'œil {m} [fig.] [péj.]
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Usage Examples English
  • The Southern Carrier of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada use a strong decoction of the root as an eyewash. Some Native Americans also crushed the leaves to make a poultice.
  • It was once used medicinally by Native Americans as an antidiarrheal and eyewash. Other traditional uses include thatching, arrowmaking and food, especially the edible root.
  • The Navajo used it as an aid in childbirth, as a lotion, an eyewash, and a treatment for snakebite and headache.
  • In Sicily and perhaps elsewhere it was used to treat skin blemishes, and in Britain into the modern era as an eyewash to treat conjunctivitis.
  • "Anemonastrum canadense" was used medically by North American Indigenous peoples as an astringent, as a styptic for wounds, sores, nosebleeds, and as an eyewash.

  • They have also used the roots in teas as a purgative or to treat tooth aches and nausea, while the Osage make an eyewash with the plant.
  • Compliance with eyewash stations regulations is a component of OSHA inspections.
  • Native American nations used the plant for healing cuts and abrasions, relief from earaches and throat infections, as well as for an eyewash.
  • Specific guidance for exposure response includes mandatory emergency shower and eyewash stations and a process for decontaminating protective clothing.
  • They take a decoction of the entire plant of Viola adunca for stomach pain. The Southern Carrier use a strong decoction of the root of Orthilia as an eyewash.

  • There are several types of emergency eyewash station and safety shower station systems, including safety showers, eyewash stations, drench hoses, combination units, and eyewash bottles.
  • The Zuni people use an infusion of it as an eyewash. The Zuni believe that this eyewash is not for people with a "bad heart".
  • Ramah Navajo use a strong infusion as cathartic, also used to treat stomachache, as an eyewash, as a lotion for itching, or in cold infusion gargled or in poultice of leaves applied for sore throat.
  • Among the Zuni people, this plant is applied in a poultice to bruises, cold infusion of blossoms used as an eyewash, and smoke from powdered plant inhaled in sweatbath for fever.
  • It has been found in eyewash stations.

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