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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