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CHOLIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cholic acid mean? 

CHOLIC ACID (noun)
  The noun CHOLIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. an insoluble crystalline acid present in bileplay

  Familiarity information: CHOLIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHOLIC ACID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An insoluble crystalline acid present in bile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("cholic acid" is a kind of...):

bile acid (any of the steroid acids generated in the liver and stored with bile)


 Context examples 


The primary bile acids, cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid, are synthesized in the liver and conjugated with taurine or glycine before secretion via bile into the intestine.

(Bile Acid Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This gene plays a role in the formation of cholic acid in peroxisomes.

(AMACR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)



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