Medical Dictionary

mercuric chloride

noun

Medical Definition of MERCURIC CHLORIDE

:  a heavy crystalline poisonous compound HgCl2 used as a disinfectant and fungicide and in photography—called also bichloride, bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, mercury bichloride

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