Optical Rotation

Preferred Label : Optical Rotation;

NCIt synonyms : Optical Activity;

NCIt 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).;

Alternative definition : PQCMC: A property of many pharmaceutical substances to rotate an incident plane of polarized light so that the transmitted light emerges at a measurable angle to the plane of the incident light.;

Details

Origin ID

C103201;

UMLS CUI

C0029141;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- optical activity [IUPAC Term]
- optical rotation [MeSH Descriptor]
- optical rotation [MeSH concept]
- optical rotation [IUPAC Term]
Semantic type(s)
- Natural Phenomenon or Process [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- optical rotation [MeSH concept]
- optical rotation [MeSH Descriptor]
concept_is_in_subset
- FDA Pharmaceutical Quality/CMC Terminology [NCIt concept]
- FDA Structured Product Labeling Terminology [NCIt concept]
- PQ/CMC Test Category Terminology [NCIt concept]
- SPL Substance Indexing Terminology [NCIt concept]

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