See Also: dinitrophenols(medicine)

mattress (oh) and dinitrophenols (medicine)


mattress (oh)



ladder, mattress
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: materas, from Arabic matrah 'place where something is thrown']
the soft part of a bed that you lie on
firm/soft/hard etc mattress
::an old, lumpy mattress

dinitrophenols (medicine)


dinitrophenols
<chemical> Organic compounds that contain two nitro groups attached to a phenol.

Pharmacological action: fungicides, industrial, uncoupling agents.