See Also: Carboxylic acids(medicine)
chrysanthemum-carboxylic acids(medicine)
carboxylic acid(encyclopedia)
Carboxylic acid(medicine)
uracil-6-carboxylic acid(medicine)
carboxylic ester hydrolases(medicine)
carboxylic acid ester(medicine)
5-pyrrolidone-2-carboxylic acid(medicine)
carboxylic acid reductase(medicine)
activated carboxylic acid(medicine)

dissonance (iou) and Carboxylic acids (medicine)


dissonance (iou)



dissonance noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or late Latin dissonantia, formed as DISSONANT: see -ANCE.]
Lack of agreement between things; discordance, discrepancy. LME.
COGNITIVE dissonance.
(An) unpleasant or jarring combination of sounds. L16.
Music. (The quality of) a combination of notes producing beats or sounding as if it needs resolution; a note whose presence causes this. M17.
dissonancy noun (now rare) = DISSONANCE L16.

Carboxylic acids (medicine)


carboxylic acids
Organic acids containing the carboxy (-cooh) group, including amino acids and fatty acids. Carboxylic acid is used both as a class name and a suffix.