William from Fort Worth, Texas, remembers dabbing monkey blood on cuts and scrapes and wonders why anyone would call a medicine that. The nickname refers most often to the bright red antiseptic Mercurochrome, and it has also been applied to iodine...
The letters in the word sterilize can be rearranged to form the synangram Listerize. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Sterilize and Listerize as Synonymous Anagrams” I have another synanogram for you. That’s a...
urohydrosis n.— Note: The word is misspelled in the article. «For instance, the vultures urinate on their own legs, which both cools them down and applies an antiseptic that speeds healing—a practice called urophydrosis.» —“Raptors...
