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.

DUI

D014048 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0021634

CAS

Phenothiazin-5-ium, 3-amino-7-(dimethylamino)-2-methyl-, chloride

History note

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

Online note

use TOLONIUM CHLORIDE to search TOLUIDINE BLUE O 1972-73 (as Prov 1972-73); search HEMOSTATICS 1966-71

Public note

74; was see under HEMOSTATICS 1963-73