SAPO
\sˈɑːpə͡ʊ], \sˈɑːpəʊ], \s_ˈɑː_p_əʊ]\
Definitions of SAPO
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
By Thomas Davidson
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A product obtained by treating fatty bodies with caustic alkalies dissolved in water. In the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, it means Soap made with soda and olive oil. See Sapo medicinalis.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] Soap. Hence, Saponatus, combined or mixed with soap. Saponification, the act or process of saponifying. Saponify[L. facere, to make], to convert into soap; to change a fat (or glyceride of a fatty acid) by the action of an alkali into glycerin and the alkaline salt of the fatty acid; hence, generically, to decompose by means of an alkali the salt of any hydrocarbon. Saponin, a glucoside, C32H54O18, found in soapwort (Saponaria), caulophyllum, quillaja, senega, and other plants to which it imparts the property of making a lather with water. Sapotoxin, a poisonous glucoside found in quillaja-bark.
By Alexander Duane