mercurochrome

English

Etymology

From a trademark.

Noun

mercurochrome (countable and uncountable, plural mercurochromes)

  1. merbromin
    • 1951, H. Beam Piper, Dearest:
      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.
    • 2000 January 7, Richard E. L. Paul et al., “Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites”, in Science, volume 287, number 5450, →DOI, pages 128–131:
      Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome.
    • 2007 June 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
      While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal.

French

Etymology

From the commercial product Mercurochrome.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛʁ.ky.ʁɔ.kʁom/

Noun

mercurochrome m (plural mercurochromes)

  1. antiseptic
    Synonym: merbromine

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