dimercaprol
Portuguese, noun
dimercaprol is spelled D-I-M-E-R-C-A-P-R-O-L (11 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dimercaprol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dimercaprol (the mercaptan 2,3-dimercaptopropanol used as an antidote to arsenic poisoning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does dimercaprol mean in English?
noun
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masculinedimercaprol (the mercaptan 2,3-dimercaptopropanol used as an antidote to arsenic poisoning)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common is dimercaprol in Portuguese?
dimercaprol appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).