What does methylene blue mean?

methylene blue means "a dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning".

What is another word for methylene blue?

Close synonyms include methylthionine chloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is methylene blue a common word?

methylene blue 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.

Methylene blue — meaning and 1 synonym

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning
Synonymsmethylthionine chloride
Broaderstain thiazine

Questions about methylene blue

What does methylene blue mean?: methylene blue means "a dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning".
What is another word for methylene blue?: Close synonyms include methylthionine chloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is methylene blue a common word?

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