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Definition :

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 in the treatment of rheumatism Called also hydroxybenzoic acid