Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellowish-brown substance (C4I4NH) composed of long prismatic crystals, used in medicine as an antiseptic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A crystallized substance of the composition C4I4NH, technically tetra-iodo-pyrrol, used like iodoform.
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Examples
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Ointment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent. strength; mercurial plaster, full strength or weakened with lard or petrolatum; a two to twenty per cent. ointment of iodol; resorcin, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce of ointment base; and lotions of corrosive sublimate, one-half to three grains to the ounce.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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_ -- Mercurial ointments, lotions and baths, and iodol in ointment or in (and also calomel) powder form.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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