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hydrochloric acid
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Definitions related to hydrochloric acid:
  • (hydrogen chloride) The chemical agent hydrogen chloride.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • A strong corrosive acid that is commonly used as a laboratory reagent. It is formed by dissolving hydrogen chloride in water. GASTRIC ACID is the hydrochloric acid component of GASTRIC JUICE.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Aqueous solutions of hydrogen chloride; a highly corrosive strong mineral acid, used as a laboratory reagent and also secreted by the gastric parietal cells.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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