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Meaning of "mersalyl" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MERSALYL

mersalyl  [məˈsælɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MERSALYL

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Mersalyl is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MERSALYL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mersalyl

Mersalyl is an organomercury compound. It is only rarely used as a drug, having been superseded by diuretic medications that do not contain mercury and are therefore less toxic. It features a Hg centre. Mersalyl was originally adapted from calomel, a diuretic discovered by Paracelsus.

Definition of mersalyl in the English dictionary

The definition of mersalyl in the dictionary is a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MERSALYL


acrylyl
ˈækrɪlɪl
tolyl
ˈtɒlɪl
xylyl
ˈzaɪlɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MERSALYL

merriness
merry
merry dancers
merry men
merry-andrew
merry-go-round
merrymaker
merrymaking
merryman
merrythought
merse
Merseburg
Mersey
Mersey beat
Merseyside
Mersin
mersion
Merthyr Tydfil
Merton
merveilleuse

WORDS THAT END LIKE MERSALYL

acetyl
acyl
alkyl
allyl
aryl
benzyl
beryl
butyl
carbonyl
Chernobyl
dimethyl
ethyl
fentanyl
hwyl
hydroxyl
isopropyl
methyl
phenyl
polyvinyl
vinyl

Synonyms and antonyms of mersalyl in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mersalyl» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MERSALYL

Find out the translation of mersalyl to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mersalyl from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mersalyl» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

汞撒利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mersalil
570 millions of speakers

English

mersalyl
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mersalyl
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرساليل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мерсалил
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mersalil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mersalyl
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mersalyl
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mersalyl
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mersalyl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mersalyl
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mersalyl
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mersalyl
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mersalyl
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mersalyl
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोर्सालियल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mersalil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mersalil
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mersalylu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мерсаліл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mersalyl
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mersalyl
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mersalyl
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mersalyl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mersalyl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mersalyl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MERSALYL»

The term «mersalyl» is used very little and occupies the 186.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MERSALYL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mersalyl

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERSALYL»

Discover the use of mersalyl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mersalyl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mechanisms in Bioenergetics
With previous data (3,6,13) addition of 4 nmoles mersalyl/ mg protein resulted in little change of ADP-stimulated respiration if the mersalyl has been added to the incubation medium. 8 nmoles/mg protein were fully inhibitory and this amount of  ...
Giovanni Azzone, 2012
2
Sulfur in Proteins
Benesch and Benesch (27) have shown that the carbon-mercury bond of mersalyl is cleaved when mersalyl reacts with the dithiol, BAL (2,3- dimercaptopropanol). We suppose that a similar reaction may occur when mersalyl binds the ...
Reinhold Benesch, 2012
3
Medicinal Chemistry
Dose : Usual i.m., subcutaneous, daily 0.5 to 2.0 ml (containing 100 mg of merethoxylline procaine and 50 mg of theophylline per ml) E. Mersalyl INN, USAN, Mersalyl Sodium BAN, CONHCH2CHCH2HgOH OCH3 OCH2COONa Sodium salt ...
Ashutosh Kar, 2005
4
Molecular Aspects of Ammoniagenesis
Glutamine-induced swelling as inhibited by mersalyl and not by NEM Min E546 control mersalyl NEM The time-course of swelling was monitored as the decline in optical density at 546 nm following the addition of 0.2 M £ -glutamine (final ...
Hitoshi Endou, 1991
5
Thirty Years of Progress in Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and ...
FMN uptake was found to be sensitive to the thiol reagent mersalyl, which does not enter mitochondria (2) (Fig. 4). A complete inhibition of FMN uptake was observed in the presence of 0.4 mM mersalyl. This suggests that some carrier - SH ...
F. Palmieri, S. Papa, C. Saccone, 1995
6
Synthetic Organic Chemistry: (For Honours & Post-Graduate ...
Although it is found to have pronounced diuretic action, its highly toxic nature replaced its use by the less toxic mersalyl (salyrgan). (U) Mersalyl (salyrgan). Mersalyl is the sodium salt of mersalyl acid which can be prepared from salicylic acid.
O. P. Agarwal
7
Mammalian Amino Acid Transport
Swelling in all of these L-amino acids was inhibited by diazobenzenesulphonate and by mersalyl but not by N-ethylmaleimide. Inferences about permeability obtained from swelling in isotonic solutions of substrates do not necessarily reflect ...
M.S. Kilberg, D. Häussinger, 1992
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PROGRESS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
A number of diuretic substances (aminophylline, azetazolamide, ammonium chloride, mersalyl, cortisone, prednisolone) have been tested by Heller and his co-workersM in this manner, and diuretic effects were observed with all these ...
Gwynn Pennant Ellis, Geoffrey Buckle West, 1961
9
First Symposium on Chemical-biological Correlation, May ...
showed that the diurectic action of both organic mercurials, mercuhydrin and mersalyl, and of inorganic mercury compounds is prevented or abolished by BAL, thioglycollate and glutathione. Cysteine in contrast had little effect in preventing ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Chemical-Biological Coordination Center, 1951
10
New Scientist
The most effective compound to date has been mersalyl, but this suffers from the disadvantage that it has to be given by injection, which is unpleasant for the patient and inconvenient for the doctor or nurse. Now two groups of workers report ...

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERSALYL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mersalyl is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dr Le Fanu's online health clinic, Friday 2 August 2013
... reasoning that I didn't need to trigger any further reaction - I had been allergic to mersalyl in the eye drops prescribed post-cataract surgery. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
2
Diseases and treatment then and now – Some Reminiscences
When I was an interne, the standard diuretic was Mersalyl, given by injection twice a week. There are of course now a whole heap of new drugs ... «The Island.lk, May 12»

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