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Hydrocarbons, Cyclic

Medical Definition:	Organic compounds composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen forming a closed ring that may be either alicyclic or aromatic.
Guide Notes:	GEN; prefer specifics; used for mapping supplementary chemicals; do not confuse with HYDROCARBONS, ACYCLIC

Hydrocarbons, Cyclic Categories.

	Bridged Compounds - Cyclic hydrocarbons that contain multiple rings and share one or more atoms.
	Hydrocarbons, Alicyclic - Organic compounds composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen. Three or more carbon atoms are arranged in a cyclic structure and they possess aliphatic properties.
	Hydrocarbons, Aromatic - Organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen in the form of an unsaturated, usually hexagonal ring structure. The compounds can be single ring, or double, triple, or multiple fused rings.

Hydrocarbons, Cyclic Medical Definitions and Terms

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