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.
axÂ·oÂ·nal. (ak'sÅ-nÄl), Pertaining to an axon; most often used to describe the type of underlying nerve pathology responsible for generalized polyneuropathies. In this context, usually used incorrectly, that is, axonal polyneuropathy, rather than axon loss polyneuropathy (to distinguish the disorder from a demyelinating polyneuropathy).