SILASTIC

Etymology

Proper noun

Silastic

A type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.

Anagrams

• laicists

Source: Wiktionary



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