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Synthetic vs Bioidentical - What's the difference?

synthetic | bioidentical |

As adjectives the difference between synthetic and bioidentical

is that synthetic is of, or relating to synthesis while bioidentical is identical to that which is naturally produced by the body.

As nouns the difference between synthetic and bioidentical

is that synthetic is a synthetic compound while bioidentical is a bioidentical form of something.

synthetic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to synthesis.
  • (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • Artificial, not genuine.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.

    • Derived terms

    * nucleosynthetic * syntheticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A synthetic compound.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Elsa Brenner, title=Art House to Get a Campus, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said. }}

    bioidentical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Identical to that which is naturally produced by the body.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 28, author=Roni Caryn Rabin, title=For a Low-Dose Hormone, Take Your Pick, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Many women seeking natural remedies have turned to compounding pharmacies, druggists who promise so-called bioidentical hormones that are chemically synthesized but have the same molecular structure as hormones produced by a woman’s body. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bioidentical form of something.