AcetylSalicylic Acid (Aspirin)

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
ASA
Pronunciation
/ˌæs.ə.tɪlˌsæl.əˈsɪr.ɪk ˈæs.ɪd/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. The ancient Greeks, for example, treated pain with a tea made by boiling willow leaves and bark, a tea modern scientists now know contains salicin, a precursor of acetylsalicylic acid & aspirin.
  2. Determination of Acetylsalicylic Acid in Aspirin by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis
  3. Simultaneous Determination of Acetylsalicylic Acid and Phenobarbital in the Aspirin Tablets by the Linear Iterative Method
  4. Acetylsalicylic acid was able to induce death of large quantities of model mice. Studies on the Relationships Between Dose of Enteric-Coated Aspirin and Concentration of Serum Acetylsalicylate and Salicylate or the Effect of drug

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