calomel

calomel has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic