organic : Idioms & Phrases

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acute organic brain syndrome

  • noun any disorder (as sudden confusion or disorientation) in an otherwise normal person that is due to reversible (temporary) impairment of brain tissues (as by head injuries or drugs or infection)
    acute brain disorder.
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Organic law ∨ laws

  • a law or system of laws, or declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and organization of a political or other association; a constitution.
Webster 1913

Organic analysis

  • (Chem.), the analysis of organic compounds, concerned chiefly with the determination of carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen as the difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent, and nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide; formerly called ultimate analysis, in distinction from proximate analysis.
Webster 1913

organic brain syndrome

  • noun mental abnormality resulting from disturbance of the structure or function of the brain
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Organic chemistry

  • noun the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)
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  • . See under Chemistry.
Webster 1913

organic compound

  • noun any compound of carbon and another element or a radical
    organic compound.
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Organic compounds

  • noun any compound of carbon and another element or a radical
    organic compound.
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  • . (Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under Carbon.
Webster 1913

Organic description of a curve

  • (Geom.), the description of a curve on a plane by means of instruments. Brande & C.
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Organic disease

  • (Med.), a disease attended with morbid changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in the composition of its fluids; opposed to functional disease.
Webster 1913

organic disorder

  • noun disorder caused by a detectable physiological or structural change in an organ
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Organic electricity

  • . See under Electricity.
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organic evolution

  • noun (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
    phylogenesis; phylogeny; evolution.
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organic fertiliser

  • noun a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
    organic; organic fertiliser.
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organic fertilizer

  • noun a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
    organic; organic fertiliser.
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organic law

  • noun law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
    constitution; fundamental law.
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organic light-emitting diode

  • noun a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers
    OLED.
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organic phenomenon

  • noun (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals
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organic process

  • noun a process occurring in living organisms
    biological process.
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Organic stricture

  • (Med.), a contraction of one of the natural passages of the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to muscular contraction.
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organic structure

  • noun the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
    body; physical structure.
    • he felt as if his whole body were on fire
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theory of organic evolution

  • noun (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
    evolutionism; theory of evolution.
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