A chemical or pharmaceutical substance used in treating skin conditions.
From Greek 'derma' (skin) + perhaps '-ol' (a chemical suffix for alcohols or phenolic compounds). An early pharmaceutical coinage for skin-treating agents, now somewhat archaic.
Dermol is an older pharmaceutical term—today we have more specific names for skin treatments like 'moisturizers' and 'emollients,' but the word shows how chemists tried to create a general category for skin medicine!
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