bitter salts

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   hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures

   SynonymsEpsom salts

   Broadermagnesium sulfate

Questions about bitter salts

What does bitter salts mean?

bitter salts means "hydrated magnesium sulfate that is taken orally to treat heartburn and constipation and injected to prevent seizures".

What is another word for bitter salts?

Close synonyms include Epsom salts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bitter salts a common word?

bitter salts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.