Used to describe environments or solutions in biology, geology and chemistry.

Scientific Descriptions

'Saline' refers to any water with salt, not just sea water.

Not Just Ocean

Used in technical contexts to specify salt concentration levels.

Technical Characteristic

Describes a common medical fluid for hydration and wound care.

Medical Treatment

In medical use, 'saline' must be sterile to avoid infection.

Sterility Matters

'Saline' as a noun often refers to isotonic solutions in medical settings.

Type of Solution

In literature, 'saline' might evoke imagery related to salt.

Literary Description

Can be metaphorical, indicating bitterness or preserving qualities.

Metaphorically Speaking

In surgery, 'saline' is used to refer to a specific solution for medical care.

Surgery and Medicine

'Saline' is important for safely cleaning wounds to prevent infection.

Wound Cleaning

 Our current studies have moved into what I think is going to be the best possible predictor of a human patient, and that's into macaque monkeys. This next slide shows you a microscopic image from the heart of a macaque that was given an experimental heart attack and then treated with a saline injection.

Can we regenerate heart...

 by looking at a map -- lots of maps, actually, both the ones that you and I look at on our smartphones as well as the less common ones that show what lies below the surface in terms of depleted oil and gas fields and saline aquifers with the ability to trap CO2 underground. And by looking at these maps,

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 planet set of amazing discoveries over the last few decades has been about life in extreme environments so that is those places on earth that are inhospitable but nevertheless there are organisms that have evolved to take advantage of these situations this is an acid saline

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 but I'll show you in a minute how we do that. But we wanted to take this one step further, one step closer to potentially being relevant to humans. What I'm showing you now are unpublished studies, where we used human plasma, young human plasma, and as a control, saline,

How young blood might...

 anything that's injected into our system anything that comes in contact with our blood that includes even the needle the saline solution spinal fluids like epidurals anything that comes in contact with those systems the blood of horseshoe crabs can be taken from the

Horseshoe Crabs Mate in...

 the organ is immersed in an ice slush and injected with a solution to induce cardiac arrest. These treatments stop the heart from pumping to ensure it can be removed cleanly. Surgeons then place the organ in a mix of cold saline and preservation solution.

How does heart...

 with a support group to help her cope her story has a positive ending but there are thousands of others in similar situations who are much less fortunate although she may not know this my encounter with saline has completely

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 it's called cricket saline, it's a solution that mimics the internal chemistry of the cricket. So, that when the worms come out they don't freak out. They think they're still inside the cricket.

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 lakes of highly saline water actually over the ocean we're diving into the history of life on earth we have the technology to access the deep sea and know about the life

Discovering underwater...

 And in most parts it is saline, not fit for drinking. So, you can't install hand pumps or dig wells, though there is no electricity in most of the villages.