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  • noun Plural form of mercurial.

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Examples

  • I never saw it under the age of puberty, which is, I suppose, one reason why it is generally taken, both by patient and surgeon, for venereal; and being treated with mercurials, is thereby soon and much exasperated.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • I never saw it under the age of puberty, which is, I suppose, one reason why it is generally taken, both by patient and surgeon, for venereal; and being treated with mercurials, is thereby soon and much exasperated.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • I never saw it under the age of puberty, which is, I suppose, one reason why it is generally taken, both by patient and surgeon, for venereal; and being treated with mercurials, is thereby soon and much exasperated.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Other "serious problems" were the facts that there was no consideration of pre-natal thimerosal exposures from immune globulin, or "other vaccinations given during pregnancy," (i.e., flu shot), and no accounting for, "the cumulative exposure to organic mercurials through diet or other environmental sources."

    David Kirby: CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument 2008

  • Finally, panel members worried that thimerosal alone did not paint the full picture of "the cumulative exposure of a child to organic mercurials through diet or other environmental sources."

    David Kirby: Bad News for Mercury Defenders 2008

  • Lastly in lands like Unyamwezi, where mercurials are wholly unknown, I never saw caries of the nasal or facial bones.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In 1948, Dr Morton of the Department of Bacteriology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr North of the Philadelphia General Hospital, and Mr Engley of Camp Detrick, published the results of their study in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluating the use of mercurials in medicine.

    FDA Knew Dangers Of Thimerosal-Vaccines For 60 Years 2005

  • Mr Dlamini worked in the company's mercurials division and he fell seriously ill in March, 1992 about three months after the poisoning episode.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He worked in the mercurials plant towards the end of 1991 for less than three months before he started showing the symptoms that preceded his hospitalisation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • We had aneroid barometers for work away from the river and these were constantly compared with and adjusted to the mercurials.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

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