Word Meanings - OLEATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

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• OLEATE
  A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.
• INUNCTION
  The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically , the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.
• MEDICINE
  A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of
• OLEIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At
• MERCURY
  A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
• LINOLEIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically , designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
• AZOLEIC
  Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid.
• RICINOLEIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, Cricinolic.
• RICINOLEATE
  A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.
• SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
  Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
• SINAPOLEIC
  Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.
• LINOLEATE
  A salt of linoleic acid.
• CHOLEIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
• ERYTHROLEIC
  Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.