thimerosal

Questions about thimerosal

What is another word for thimerosal?

It depends which thimerosal you mean. In the sense “a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic”, the synonyms are sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, Merthiolate. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of thimerosal?

WordNet records no antonym for thimerosal. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for thimerosal come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of thimerosal

• Full entry for thimerosalAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for thimerosalWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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