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Definition of Hydrargyrum
1. Noun. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
Generic synonyms: Metal, Metallic Element
Substance meronyms: Cinnabar, Calomel, Mercurous Chloride
Derivative terms: Mercurial, Mercuric, Mercurous
Definition of Hydrargyrum
1. n. Quicksilver; mercury.
Definition of Hydrargyrum
1. Noun. (chemistry medicine) The element mercury. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hydrargyrum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrargyrum
Literary usage of Hydrargyrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"(Syn., Quicksilver, hydrargyrum Vivum, Mercurius Vivus, ... the messenger of the
gods, from its mobility, quicksilver, similar origin ; L. hydrargyrum; ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"... must first be converted into an oxide, and this oxide must be basic to a
soluble compound ; and that the amount of suboxide in hydrargyrum cum creta is ..."
3. A Dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris, Ferdinand James Samuel Gorgas (1882)
"hydrargyrum Ammonia'tum. Ammoniated mercury. hydrargyrum Boruss'icum. ...
hydrargyrum cum Magne'sia. Ph. D. Mercury with carbonate of magnesia. hydrargyrum ..."
4. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1874)
"Her'cury, (after the god,) hydrargyrum — m. ... m. with Chalk, hydrargyrum cum
... Precipitate of, white, hydrargyrum ..."
5. Elements of Medical Chemistry by Benjamin Howard Rand (1871)
"The oxalate of the protoxide is used in sea-sickness and the vomiting of pregnancy.
MERCURY (hydrargyrum), Hg=100. SYLLABUS. As METAL : (a) hydrargyrum ..."
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