Crossword-Solution: CALOMEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calomel | n. | Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CALOMEL | anagram | COMEALL |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CALOMEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fungicide base | 1 answer |
| Mercurous chloride | 2 answers |
| Chloride prefix | 10 answers |
| chloride sodium | 10 answers |
| purgative | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CALOMEL (5)
The patients themselves, however, followed their own inclinations--which is a reprehensible way that patients have--so that we remained neglected, with our modern instruments and our latest alkaloids, while he was serving out senna and calomel to all the countryside.
The p'int is, what are you goin' to give her? When I was young the doctors used to say, When you are in doubt, give calomel--as if you were playin' trumps." "Nonsense, nonsense," said I, my eyes earnestly fixed upon my open medical case.
His methods remained those of his youth, and were marked chiefly by a readiness to prescribe calomel in any emergency.
Besides,’ said Bob, lowering his voice to a confidential whisper, ‘they will be all the better for it; for, being nearly out of drugs, and not able to increase my account just now, I should have been obliged to give them calomel all round, and it would have been certain to have disagreed with some of them.
The susceptibility of some persons to calomel, the slightest dose causing profuse salivation and painful oral symptoms, is so common that few physicians administer mercury to their patients without some knowledge of their susceptibility to this drug.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2008).