mercurochrome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome."
- "While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal."
Etymology
From a trademark.