Ortho

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

Ortho may refer to:

  • Ortho, Belgium, a village in the Belgian province of Luxembourg

Science

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

Mathematics

  • Orthogonal, a synonym for perpendicular
  • Orthonormal, the property that a collection of vectors are mutually perpendicular and each of unit magnitude
  • Orthodrome, a synonym for great circle, a geodesic on the sphere
  • Orthographic projection, a parallel projection onto a perpendicular plane

Medicine

  • Orthomyxovirus, a 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

Theology

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

Business

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

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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