Definition of Organic compound
1. Noun. Any compound of carbon and another element or a radical.
Generic synonyms: Chemical Compound, Compound
Definition of Organic compound
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms. ¹
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Medical Definition of Organic compound
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Literary usage of Organic compound
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1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1852)
"Formation of one organic compound from Another. The following compounds, for
example, may be formed by artificial processes :—Formic acid; from tartaric ..."
2. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"... composition of plants and animals is equally significant of a radical distinction
between the simplest organic compound and those of an inorganic nature ..."
3. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"IDENTIFICATION OF AN organic compound. Knowing the formula of a pure organic
compound from its analysis and molecular weight, ..."
4. A Treatise on Food and Dietetics Physiologically and Therapeutically Considered by Frederick William Pavy (1881)
"Lie- big was the first to maintain that animals possessed the power of forming
one kind of organic compound out of another. A warm controversy was at one ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"On a new organic compound containing Boron. By Dr. FRANKLAND and B. DUPPA.
The authors exhibited a new body obtained by the action of zinc-ethyl on boracic ..."
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