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... > Organic Chemicals > Carboxylic Acids > Acids, Acyclic > Acrylates > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Acrylic Resins > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Acrylic Resins > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Plastics > Resins, Synthetic > Acrylic Resins > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Dental Materials > Resins, Synthetic > Acrylic Resins > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Dental Materials > Resins, Synthetic > Acrylic Resins > Polymethacrylic Acids > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
Macromolecular Substances > Polymers > Polyethylene Glycols > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate
... > Organic Chemicals > Alcohols > Glycols > Ethylene Glycols > Polyethylene Glycols > Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate

Preferred term

Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Gel, Glycol Methacrylate
  • Gel, Hydroxymethacrylate
  • Glycol Methacrylate Gel
  • Hydroxymethacrylate Gel
  • Methacrylate Gel, Glycol
  • Methacrylate, Polyglycol
  • PHEMA
  • Polyglycol Methacrylate
  • Poly Hema
  • Poly-Hema

Scope note

  • A biocompatible, hydrophilic, inert gel that is permeable to tissue fluids. It is used as an embedding medium for microscopy, as a coating for implants and prostheses, for contact lenses, as microspheres in adsorption research, etc.

History note

  • 91(78); was see under POLYMETHACRYLIC ACIDS 1981-90; was see under ACRYLIC RESINS 1978-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011102

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