Medical Definition of Racaemic
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Denoting a mixture of optically active compounds that is itself optically inactive, being composed of an equal number of dextro-and levorotatory substances, which are separable.
Those compounds internally compensated (i.e., having an internal plane of symmetry), and therefore not separable into d and l (or + and -) forms, are termed meso.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Racaemic
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