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From a trademark.
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.
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.
From the commercial product Mercurochrome.
mercurochrome m (plural mercurochromes)
- antiseptic
- Synonym: merbromine
- “mercurochrome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.