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... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polidocanol
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polidocanol
Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polidocanol
... > Organic Chemicals > Alcohols > Glycols > Ethylene Glycols > Polyethylene Glycols > Polidocanol

Preferred term

Polidocanol  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • An alkyl polyglycol ether of LAURYL ALCOHOL, chemically defined as an alcohol ethoxylate having an average alkyl chain of 12–14 carbon atoms, and an ethylene oxide chain of 9 ethylene oxide units. It is used as a detergent, and medically as a local anesthetic, and as a sclerosing agent for the treatment of ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES and VARICOSE VEINS.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 0AWH8BFG9A
  • 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27-Nonaoxanonatriacontan-1-ol
  • 6HQ855798J
  • 9002-92-0 (Polidocanol)
  • J89TKQ5R54
  • Laureth 9
  • Laureth-9
  • Z95S6G8201

Allowable Qualifier(s)

Pharmacological Action(s)

In other languages

  • Polidocanol

    French

  • 0AWH8BFG9A
  • 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27-Nonaoxanonatriacontan-1-ol
  • 6HQ855798J
  • 9002-92-0 (Polidocanol)
  • J89TKQ5R54
  • Z95S6G8201

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-DS2107WK-K

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