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Oils, Volatile

"Oils, Volatile" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Oils which evaporate readily. The volatile oils occur in aromatic plants, to which they give odor and other characteristics. Most volatile oils consist of a mixture of two or more TERPENES or of a mixture of an eleoptene (the more volatile constituent of a volatile oil) with a stearopten (the more solid constituent). The synonym essential oils refers to the essence of a plant, as its perfume or scent, and not to its indispensability.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Oils, Volatile" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Oils, Volatile" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2015 and 2016 and 2020
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