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Salicylic Acid

"Salicylic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A compound obtained from the bark of the white willow and wintergreen leaves. It has bacteriostatic, fungicidal, and keratolytic actions.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Salicylic Acid" by people in this website by year, and whether "Salicylic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2007 and 2008
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