Definition of cresol
: any of three poisonous colorless crystalline or liquid isomeric phenols C7H8O
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Origin and Etymology of cresol
International Scientific Vocabulary, irregular from creosote
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First Known Use: circa 1869
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medical Definition of cresol
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: any of three poisonous colorless crystalline or liquid isomeric phenols C7H8O that are used as disinfectants, in making phenolic resins and plasticizers, and in organic synthesis — see metacresol, orthocresol, paracresol
2
: a mixture of cresol isomers — called also
tricresol
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