Organic Chemical
organic chemical
or·gan·ic chem·i·cal [ awr-gan-ik kem-i-kuhl ]
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Chemicals and Drugs
Definitions related to organic chemicals:
  • Broad class of substances containing carbon and its derivatives; many of these chemicals will frequently contain hydrogen with or without oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and other elements.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Molecule that contains atoms of the element carbon, usually combined with itself and with atoms of one or more other element such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, or fluorine. Excludes carbides, carbonates and carbon oxides.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A broad class of substances containing carbon and its derivatives. Many of these chemicals will frequently contain hydrogen with or without oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and other elements. They exist in either carbon chain or carbon ring form.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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