mercurial ointment

1. 1.

   an ointment containing mercury

   Broaderointment

Questions about mercurial ointment

What does mercurial ointment mean?

mercurial ointment means "an ointment containing mercury".

Is mercurial ointment a common word?

mercurial ointment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.