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Descriptor English: Methyl Chloride
Descriptor Spanish: Cloruro de Metilo
Descriptor cloruro de metilo
Scope note: Hidrocarburo utilizado como solvente industrial. Se ha utilizado como propelente aerosol, como refrigerante y como anestésico local. (Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 31st ed, p1403)
Descriptor Portuguese: Cloreto de Metila
Descriptor French: Chloro-méthane
Entry term(s): Chloride, Methyl
Chloromethane
Tree number(s): D02.455.526.439.632
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008737
Scope note: A hydrocarbon used as an industrial solvent. It has been used as an aerosal propellent, as a refrigerant and as a local anesthetic. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 31st ed, p1403)
Annotation: do not confuse with METHYLENE CHLORIDE
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Registry Number: A6R43525YO
CAS Type 1 Name: Methane, chloro-
DeCS ID: 8920
Unique ID: D008737
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Methyl Chloride - Preferred
Concept UI M0013610
Scope note A hydrocarbon used as an industrial solvent. It has been used as an aerosal propellent, as a refrigerant and as a local anesthetic. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 31st ed, p1403)
Preferred term Methyl Chloride
Entry term(s) Chloride, Methyl
Chloromethane



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