a colourless oily liquid with an offensive smell, used as an antidote to lewisite and similar toxic substances. Formula: CH2(SH)CH(SH)CH2OH
Also called: BAL
Word origin
C20: by shortening and altering from dimercaptopropanol
dimercaprol in American English
(ˌdaimərˈkæprɔl, -rɑl)
noun
Chemistry
a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C3H8OS2, originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning
Also called: BAL, British Anti-Lewisite
Word origin
[1945–50; contr. of di-mercapto-propanol (mercapto- comb. form of mercaptan)]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: RNA, fail-safe, on-line, regression analysis, taxi squad
Examples of 'dimercaprol' in a sentence
dimercaprol
The tremors decreased considerably after adding chelation therapy with dimercaprol.
Rahul T Chakor, Haresh Bharote, Nishikant Eklare, Khansabegum Tamboli 2015, 'Unilateral rubral tremors in Wilson′s disease treated with dimercaprol', Annals of Indian Academy of Neurologyhttp://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2015;volume=18;issue=1;spage=115;epage=116;aulast=Chakor. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)