National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Optical Rotation
Synonyms

OPTICAL ACTIVITY

Optical Activity

Optical Rotation

Definitions

The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right) or counterclockwise (to the left).

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C103201

code

C103201

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C54452

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C105631

Contributing_Source

FDA

DEFINITION

The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right) or counterclockwise (to the left).

FULL_SYN

OPTICAL ACTIVITY

Optical Activity

Optical Rotation

label

Optical Rotation

Preferred_Name

Optical Rotation

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C103201

Semantic_Type

Phenomenon or Process

UMLS_CUI

C0029141

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C134259

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