iodoform
/aɪˈoʊdəfɔrm/
noun
- A yellow, crystalline substance with a strong smell, used as an antiseptic (a substance that kills germs) in medicine.
- The doctor applied iodoform to the wound to prevent infection.
- Iodoform has a distinctive, somewhat unpleasant odor that many people recognize from old hospitals.
- Before modern antibiotics, iodoform was commonly used to disinfect surgical incisions.