sodium salicylate

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   a crystalline salt used as an analgesic and antipyretic

   Broaderanalgesic

Questions about sodium salicylate

What does sodium salicylate mean?

sodium salicylate means "a crystalline salt used as an analgesic and antipyretic".

Is sodium salicylate a common word?

sodium salicylate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.