All living things are made of compounds containing mostly carbon, so lots of things that are âorganicâ to a gardener are also âorganicâ to a chemist. Of course, there are many carbon compounds that are human-made, or synthetic. To chemists, these are organic compounds too.
AXUMIN is a drug for detection of prostate cancer recurrence in men who have been treated for prostate cancer but have persistently high prostate specific antigen (PSA) in their blood. High PSA in the blood of these patients is a suspicious sign that cancer is coming back or spreading.
Medical Definition of COUMARIN. : a toxic white crystalline lactone C9H6O2 with an odor of new-mown hay found in plants or made synthetically and used especially in perfumery and as the parent compound in various anticoagulant agents (as warfarin); also: a derivative of this compound.oumarin. noun couÂ·maÂ·rin \Ëkue-ËkÃ¼-mÉ\. : rÉn a toxic white crystalline LACTONE c9h6o2 with an odor of-new mown hay found in plants or made synthetically and used especially in perfumery and as the parent compound in various anticoagulant (agents as); warfarin: also a derivative of this. compound