Found 3 items, similar to Calomel.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: calomel obat urus-urus
English → English (WordNet) Definition: calomel calomel n : a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic [syn: mercurous chloride]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Calomel Calomel \Cal"o*mel\ (k[a^]l"[-o]*m[e^]l), n. [Gr. kalo`s beautiful + me`las black. So called from its being white, though made from a black mixture of mercury and corrosive sublimate. Cf. F. calom['e]las.] (Chem.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver. [1913 Webster]