noun.
In medicine, a salve prepared by triturating a metal oxid or an alkaloid with oleic acid, which is generally used in excess. It is a solution of the salt in the excess of acid.
noun.
A salt of oleic acid.
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noun.
A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.