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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| merbromin (məˈbrəʊmɪn) | |
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| See also Mercurochrome a green iridescent crystalline compound that forms a red solution in water: used in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C20H8Br2HgNa2O6 | |
| [C20: blend of | |
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merbromin mer·bro·min (mər-brō'mĭn)
n.
A green crystalline organic compound that forms a red aqueous solution, used as a germicide and an antiseptic.
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merbromin
antiseptic used to prevent infection in small cuts and abrasions. Commonly marketed as Mercurochrome, merbromin was the first of a series of antiseptics that contained mercury, a chemical element that disinfects by disrupting the metabolism of a microorganism. Merbromin stains surrounding tissue a brilliant red tinged with a yellow-green fluorescence. It is only a weak antiseptic and has been displaced in medicine by the more effective agents of the series, including nitromersol (Metaphen) and thimerosal (Merthiolate), and by antibiotics.
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