SALICYLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salicylate mean? 

• SALICYLATE (noun)
  The noun SALICYLATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs)

  Familiarity information: SALICYLATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALICYLATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("salicylate" is a kind of...):

nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; NSAID (an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids)

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salicylate"):

acetylsalicylic acid; aspirin; Bayer; Empirin; St. Joseph (the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets)

birch oil; methyl salicylate; sweet-birch oil (a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain)

phenyl salicylate; salol (a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release)

 Context examples 

A long-acting salicylate derivative with antilipidemic properties.

(Hydroxytoluic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Acetaminophen exerts antipyretic and analgesic activities by inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis while aspirin, a salicylate, inhibits cyclooxygenases (COX) with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic properties.

(Excedrin, NCI Thesaurus)

Diflunisal differs from other salicylates, in that it is not metabolized to salicylic acid, hence it has a longer half-life.

(Diflunisal, NCI Thesaurus)

A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) belonging to the salicylate family.

(Choline magnesium trisalicylate, NCI Thesaurus)