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

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Polidocanol  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Laureth 9
  • Laureth-9

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2019 (1974)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000077423

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