MULTIVITAMIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multivitamin mean? 

• MULTIVITAMIN (noun)
  The noun MULTIVITAMIN has 1 sense:

1. a pill or tablet containing several vitamins

  Familiarity information: MULTIVITAMIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTIVITAMIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pill or tablet containing several vitamins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

multivitamin; multivitamin pill

Hypernyms ("multivitamin" is a kind of...):

vitamin pill (a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement)

Meronyms (substance of "multivitamin"):

vitamin (any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism)

 Context examples 

The researchers saw a reduction in miscarriage risk for women who took a daily multivitamin.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

The term 'multivitamin' in this review was used to describe supplements that include most vitamins and minerals, rather than a select few.

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Our review found that if you want to use multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium or vitamin C, it does no harm — but there is no apparent advantage either."

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

However, women who took a daily multivitamin before conception and through early pregnancy were less likely to miscarry than women who did not.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

The systematic review of existing data and single randomized control trials published in English from January 2012 to October 2017 found that multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium and vitamin C — the most common supplements — showed no advantage or added risk in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke or premature death.

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For the current study, researchers compared such lifestyle factors as cigarette use, caffeinated beverage consumption and multivitamin use among 344 couples with a singleton pregnancy from the weeks before they conceived through the seventh week of pregnancy.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)