Exocyclic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. External to a chemical ring structure: an exocyclic double bond.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. (of a cyclic compound) not forming part of, or not attached to the ring
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the Exocyclica; having an eccentric anus, as a clypeastroid or spatangoid seaurchin.
  • Word Usage
    "Formaldehyde also affects nucleic acids by forming adducts with exocyclic nitrogen atoms in nucleotides"
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