sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
- noun
- /ˈsoʊdiəm ˌiːθəlˌmɜːrkjʊrɪˌθaɪoʊsəˈlɪsɪˌkeɪt/
- Specialized
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etilmercuritiosalicilato de sodio
- Many hospitals once used sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate as a topical antiseptic for minor wounds.
Examples
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The label on the bottle listed sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate as its active ingredient.
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The doctor used sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate during the surgery.
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Concerns about mercury content led to reduced use of sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate in medical applications.
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Have you ever heard of sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate?
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Many hospitals once used sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate as a topical antiseptic for minor wounds.
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Concerns about mercury content led to reduced use of sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate in medical applications.
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The label on the bottle listed sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate as its active ingredient.
Synonyms
16
9.9
A chemical used to stop germs in vaccines and medical products
A light-colored antiseptic liquid used on cuts and scrapes
How Hazardous
- Specialized
1
7.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
3
2.3
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
sodium + ethylmercurithiosalicylate
This is a specialised chemical name: although 'sodium' is a familiar word, the long fused component 'ethylmercurithiosalicylate' is not a recognisable or decomposable lexical item for a B1 learner, and its internal morphemes (ethyl-, mercuri-, thio-, salicylate) require domain knowledge. The overall meaning 'a surgical antiseptic' is technical and cannot be derived from the surface constituents by an average learner, so the term is effectively idiomatic/opaque in everyday language learning.
Etymology
Sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate literally lists parts of the chemical — sodium, ethyl and a mercuri part that shows it contains mercury. Because mercury was used to kill germs, this long name became the formal name for an old skin antiseptic usually sold as 'Merthiolate', so the name points to a medicine 'used to stop infection'.