Crystalloid is a name given by Graham to a class of substances which when in solution pass easily through membranes; as opposed to colloids. Metallic salts, sugar, oxalic acid, are crystalloids. See DIFFUSION, OSMOSE.
Crystalloid
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 602
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