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ortho

n. (context chemistry English) An isomer of a benzene derivative having two substituents adjacent on the ring

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Ortho is a Greek prefix meaning “straight,” “upright,” “right,” or “correct”.

Ortho may refer to:

In science

  • arene substitution patterns, two substituents that occupy adjacent positions on an aromatic ring
  • Chlordane, an organochlorine compound that was used as a pesticide

In medicine:

  • Orthomyxovirus - family of viruses to which influenza belongs
  • Orthodontics, a specialty of dentistry concerned with the study and treatment of malocclusions
  • Orthopedic, the study of the musculoskeletal system
  • Ortho-DOT, a psychedelic drug
  • Ortho-cept and Ortho Tri-cyclen, kinds of oral contraceptive drug

In theology:

  • Orthodoxy, right (correct) belief
  • Orthopraxy, right (correct) action

In corporations:

  • Ortho Pharmaceutical, which merged into Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical before being bought by Johnson & Johnson
  • Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, another subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
  • Ortho, a lawn care and pesticide company owned by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Usage examples of "ortho".

Shaw and near-loss to Ortho Stice, might not have shaken Inc and Axhandle along some psychic competitive fault-line, different guys with different rankings calculating the permuted advantages to themselves of Hal and Axford having a deeply distracted and anxious week.

Ortho in there with some very real abandonment-issues who needs some nurturing and championing from the older Ortho instead of indulging in fantasies of omnipotence.

He seems to have received instructions to put the particular hurt on Ortho Stice this time, and by his third go-around Stice is trying to weep without breath and mewing for his aunts.

Incandenza standing there waiting for Ortho Stice to finish futzing with his socks so he can serve.

It turned out that good old Ortho Stice was sitting in a bedroom-chair in front of a hall window.

Takeshi, jumped up, nose running, eyes bright, as if gone psychotropic on hot peppers and mustard, to introduce himself as Ortho Bob Dulang, hitchhiker and, as it turned out, Thanatoid.

But next day they showed up unexpectedly at the Karmology Clinic with some input relating to Vietnam in general and Ortho Bob Dulang in particular, tales of who bought what in the Ton Son Nhut latrine while bats intercepted the legendary oversize mosquitoes, who entered wailing a hot bounded world they might, at the last moment, have recognized, and stoned bat-fishermen cast their hooked lines upward into the dark .

At that point, Ortho officials persuaded employees to destroy thousands of relevant documents and hide videotapes.

Instead, they put me through an A-gate, and I come out wearing my original ortho body.

Chief Assistant Wizard, Ortho the Frank, should be able to handle anything routine.

The horseman behind narrowly managed to avoid a collision, and that only by swerving his cantering steed to the side, which made the rider next to Ortho sheer off, and the man behind him rein in with an oath, while the man to the side of the man to the side had to pull over, but not quite as much.

Alisande has marched into Latruria with Ortho and a small army, to come and get you.

On the contrary, the passage of time had only added fresh luster to the legends of his swashbuckling days, in the wild times of Belit, the Shemitish she-pirate, and Red Ortho, and grim Zaporavo of Zingara.

I started one of the nurses on the blood synthesizer, and another four prepping ortho and wound instrument trays.

Order neuro and ortho teams to meet the plane and have Medical notify the Westside hospitals.