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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellowish green, almost odorless and tasteless powder which consists of tribromphenol-bismuth, containing 50 per cent. of tribromphenol: a surgical and intestinal antiseptic.
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- noun medicine A
wound dressing consisting of agauze soaked in a mixture of bismuth tribromophenate andpetroleum jelly
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