baricity

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English

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Etymology

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From baric +‎ -ity.

Noun

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baricity (usually uncountable, plural baricities)

  1. (medicine, physical chemistry) The density of a substance compared to the density of human cerebral spinal fluid.
    Baricity is used in anesthesia to determine the manner in which a particular drug will spread in the intrathecal space.