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mercurochrome

mercurochrome noun: merbromin.

Noun

mercurochrome (countable and uncountable, plural mercurochromes)

  1. merbromin
    • 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
    • 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

mercurochrome meaning in Tamil

mercurochrome in Tamil

கிருமி நாசினி, நிறப்பொருள்

Examples of mercurochrome in a sentence

  • 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...
  • 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:

Forms of mercurochrome

pluralmercurochromes

Origin of mercurochrome

From a trademark.

Questions about mercurochrome

What does mercurochrome mean?
Mercurochrome means merbromin.
What is mercurochrome in Tamil?
Mercurochrome in Tamil is கிருமி நாசினி, நிறப்பொருள். See Mercurochrome meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mercurochrome in a sentence?
Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome.
What part of speech is mercurochrome?
Mercurochrome is a noun.
What is the plural of mercurochrome?
The plural of mercurochrome is mercurochromes.

Words near mercurochrome in the dictionary

  1. mercurize
  2. mercurized
  3. mercurizes
  4. mercurizing
  5. mercuroan
  6. mercurochrome
  7. mercurochromes
  8. mercurocuprate
  9. mercurocuprates
  10. mercurophen
  11. mercurous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercurochrome (page history and authors); mercurochrome (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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