Definition of Germicide:

Parasiticides, Germicides (Gr. upon + to feed + L. to kill). These kill animal and vegetable parasites existing upon the system, being applied usually in the form of lotions, solutions, washes, ointments, and oleates: staphisagria, corrosive mercuric chloride, mercuric nitrate and oxide, ammoniated mercury, sulfur, sulfur iodide, phenol, iodoform, thymol iodide, resorcinol, naphthalene, betanaphthol, creosote, guaiacol [Culbreth1927, pg 40].

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