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Descriptor English: Soaps
Descriptor Spanish: Jabones
Descriptor jabones
Entry term(s) jabón
Scope note: Sales de sodio o potasio de ácidos grasos de cadena larga. Estas sustancias detergentes se obtienen hirviendo aceites o grasas naturales con álcalis cáusticos. Los jabones sódicos son más duros y se utilizan como antiinfecciosos tópicos y como vehículos en píldoras y linimentos; los jabones potásicos son suaves, se usan en ungüentos y también como antimicrobianos tópicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sabões
Descriptor French: Savons
Entry term(s): Soap
Soap Solution
Soap Solutions
Solution, Soap
Solutions, Soap
Tree number(s): D27.720.877.265.861
J01.516.872
VS2.004.001.001.003
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012915
Scope note: Sodium or potassium salts of long chain fatty acids. These detergent substances are obtained by boiling natural oils or fats with caustic alkali. Sodium soaps are harder and are used as topical anti-infectives and vehicles in pills and liniments; potassium soaps are soft, used as vehicles for ointments and also as topical antimicrobials.
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AN analysis
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
Public MeSH Note: 91,63-80; was see under SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS 1981-90; was heading 1963-80
History Note: 91(81)63; was see under SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS 1981-90; was heading 1963-80
DeCS ID: 13297
Unique ID: D012915
NLM Classification: QV 233
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Date Established: 1963/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Soaps - Preferred
Concept UI M0019994
Scope note Sodium or potassium salts of long chain fatty acids. These detergent substances are obtained by boiling natural oils or fats with caustic alkali. Sodium soaps are harder and are used as topical anti-infectives and vehicles in pills and liniments; potassium soaps are soft, used as vehicles for ointments and also as topical antimicrobials.
Preferred term Soaps
Entry term(s) Soap
Soap Solution - Narrower
Concept UI M0019993
Preferred term Soap Solution
Entry term(s) Soap Solutions
Solution, Soap
Solutions, Soap



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