Having been treated, impregnated, or disinfected with carbolic acid; containing carbolic acid as an active ingredient.
Past tense/participle of 'carbolate,' from 'carbolic' plus '-ated.' Used extensively in medical and pharmaceutical contexts from the late 1800s through early 1900s.
Carbolated gauze, carbolated instruments, and carbolated bandages were once the height of medical safety—today it seems primitive, but this simple chemical treatment shifted medicine from an art where patients routinely died of infection to a science.
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