UNSATURATED FATTY ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsaturated fatty acid mean? 

• UNSATURATED FATTY ACID (noun)
  The noun UNSATURATED FATTY ACID has 1 sense:

1. a fatty acid whose carbon chain can absorb additional hydrogen atoms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSATURATED FATTY ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fatty acid whose carbon chain can absorb additional hydrogen atoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("unsaturated fatty acid" is a kind of...):

fatty acid (any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unsaturated fatty acid"):

monounsaturated fatty acid (an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in olive oil and chicken and almonds)

polyunsaturated fatty acid (an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil)

ricinoleic acid (an oily fatty acid found in castor oil and used in soap)

elaeostearic acid; eleostearic acid (a crystalline unsaturated fatty acid)

 Context examples 

A class of oxygenated, endogenous, unsaturated fatty acids derived from arachidonic acid.

(Eicosanoid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A lipophilic, unsaturated fatty acid ester derivative of gemcitabine (dFdC), an antimetabolite deoxynucleoside analogue, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Gemcitabine Elaidate, NCI Thesaurus)

Unsaturated fatty acids are those that contain one or more double bonds in their alkyl-chain.

(Oxidation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The calcium salt of undecylenic acid, an 11 carbon mono-unsaturated fatty acid with broad-spectrum antifungal activity.

(Calcium Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids.

(ECI2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

PKN is activated by a small GTPase RhoA and unsaturated fatty acids such as arachidonic acid.

(Centrosome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The copper salt of undecylenic acid, an 11 carbon mono-unsaturated fatty acid with broad-spectrum antifungal activity.

(Copper Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)

The olive oil/soya oil/egg lecithin emulsion provides about 15% of saturated fatty acids (SFA), 65% of mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and 20% of essential poly-unsaturated fatty acids (EPUFA).

(Olive Oil/Soya Oil/Egg Lecithin-based Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)

Cyclooxygenase Interaction involves temporary non-covalent binding, typically through intermolecular physical forces of attraction and spatial complementarity, between a molecular entity and Cyclooxygenase, an enzyme complex that catalyzes the formation of prostaglandins from unsaturated fatty acid, molecular oxygen, and a reduced acceptor.

(Cyclooxygenase Interaction, NCI Thesaurus)