Brit·ish anti-lewisite (br t sh)n. See dimercaprol. |
British Anti-Lewisite
A sulfhydryl compound developed in World War II as an antidote to vesicant arsenical war gases which may be used as a therapeutic chelator for arsenic, lead, mercury—inorganic mercury, but not alkylmercury or phenyl mercury—and other metal poisonings; it was formerly used for chelating copper in patients with Wilson’s disease
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