mercurochrome
English edit
Etymology edit
From a trademark.
Noun edit
mercurochrome (countable and uncountable, plural mercurochromes)
- merbromin
- 1951, H. Beam Piper, Dearest[1]:
- 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[2], volume 287, number 5450, , 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[3]:
- While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal.
French edit
Etymology edit
From the commercial product Mercurochrome.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mercurochrome m (plural mercurochromes)
- antiseptic
- Synonym: merbromine
Further reading edit
- “mercurochrome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.