sodium phosphate

1. 1.

   phosphate of sodium; used as a laxative to cleanse the bowels

   Synonymssodium orthophosphate

   Broaderphosphate

Questions about sodium phosphate

What does sodium phosphate mean?

sodium phosphate means "phosphate of sodium; used as a laxative to cleanse the bowels".

What is another word for sodium phosphate?

Close synonyms include sodium orthophosphate. 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 sodium phosphate a common word?

sodium phosphate 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.