salicin

American  

[sal-uh-sin] / ˈsæl ə sɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 1 3 H 1 8 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the American aspen: used in medicine chiefly as an antipyretic and analgesic.

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salicin British  

/ ˈsælɪsɪn /

noun

1. a colourless or white crystalline water-soluble glucoside obtained from the bark of poplar trees and used as a medical analgesic. Formula: C 13 H 18 O 7

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Etymology

Origin of salicin

1820–30; < French salicine < Latin salic- (stem of salix ) willow + French -ine -ine ²

Example Sentences

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salicin

The powdered bark contains the analgesic salicin, which Bayer modifies to create the less-toxic acetylsalicylic acid.

From Nature ● Jul. 12, 2016

Indeed, willow bark has been partly considered succedaneous to cinchonia, but since they had no means of extracting the salicin, the bark must be used in its natural state.

From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White

Spiroylic acid is also formed by the oxidation of spiroyligenic acid, and when saligenin, salicin, courmacin, or indigo, is heated with caustic potash.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

It can be hydrolyzed, by a special enzyme, into salicin and benzoic acid.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

Populin, C20H22O8, which occurs in the leaves and bark of Populus tremula, is benzoyl salicin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various