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Inorganic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Phenothiazines > Tolonium Chloride
Organic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Phenothiazines > Tolonium Chloride
Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring > Heterocyclic Compounds, 3-Ring > Phenothiazines > Tolonium Chloride

Preferred term

Tolonium Chloride  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Blue O, Toluidine
  • Blue, Toluidine
  • Toluidine Blue
  • Toluidine Blue O

Scope note

  • A phenothiazine that has been used as a hemostatic, a biological stain, and a dye for wool and silk. Tolonium chloride has also been used as a diagnostic aid for oral and gastric neoplasms and in the identification of the parathyroid gland in thyroid surgery.

History note

  • 74; was see under HEMOSTATICS 1963-73, was TOLUIDINE BLUE O 1972-73 (Prov)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014048

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