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mercurochrome en · NOUN

Etymology

From a trademark.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) merbromin
   • Jenny was sining on the closed lid of the toilet, her long legs stretched out in front of her so that he could treat the cuts with mercurochrome. 1984, Harry Adam Knight, Carnosaur:
   • Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome. 2000 January 7, Richard E. L. Paul et al., “Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites”, in Science, volume 287, number 5450, →DOI, pages 128–131:
   • While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal. 2007 June 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve. 1951, H. Beam Piper, Dearest:

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