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Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts i…

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.

A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.

A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.

ning to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid.

ting, any one of several hydroxyl derivatives of benzonic acid, of which the commonest is salicylic acid.

ch are at once derivatives of both phenol and some member of the fatty acid series; thus, salicylic acid is a phenol acid. -- Phenol alcohol (Chem.), any one of series of derivatives of phenol and carbinol which have the properties of both combined; thus, saligenin is a phenol alcohol. -- Phenol aldehyde (Chem.), any…

The hypothetical radical of salicylic acid and of certain related compounds.

o obtained by oxidation of saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salycylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, or spiroylous, acid.

A salt of salicylic acid.

A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.

derived from, the meadowsweet (Spiræa); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.