CALOMEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calomel mean? 

• CALOMEL (noun)
  The noun CALOMEL has 1 sense:

1. a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic

  Familiarity information: CALOMEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALOMEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

calomel; mercurous chloride

Hypernyms ("calomel" is a kind of...):

chloride (any compound containing a chlorine atom)

Meronyms (substance of "calomel"):

atomic number 80; Hg; hydrargyrum; mercury; quicksilver (a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures)

Holonyms ("calomel" is a substance of...):

black lotion; blackwash (a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores)