VITAMIN B12

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitamin B12 mean? 

• VITAMIN B12 (noun)
  The noun VITAMIN B12 has 1 sense:

1. a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia

  Familiarity information: VITAMIN B12 used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITAMIN B12 (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

antipernicious anemia factor; cobalamin; cyanocobalamin; vitamin B12

Hypernyms ("vitamin B12" is a kind of...):

B; B-complex vitamin; B complex; B vitamin; vitamin B; vitamin B complex (originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins)

 Context examples 

Folic acid is being studied with vitamin B12 in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

(Folic Acid, NCI Dictionary)

A type of anemia (low red blood cell count) caused by the body's inability to absorb vitamin B12.

(Pernicious anemia, NCI Dictionary)

Folate is being studied with vitamin B12 in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

(Folate, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cyanocobalamin and vitamin B12.

(Cobalamin, NCI Dictionary)

It is usually caused by vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency.

(Megaloblastic Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Choline is also being studied together with vitamin B12 in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

(Choline, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cobalamin and vitamin B12.

(Cyanocobalamin, NCI Dictionary)

Control of methionine intake and supplementing folic acid and vitamin B12 in the diet are used to lower homocysteine levels.

(Biosynthesis of Cysteine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes Methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria type D protein, mitochondrial, plays a role in the mediation of vitamin B12 metabolism.

(MMADHC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

If untreated, the clinical course progresses to malabsorption of fats, vitamin B12 and calcium, the latter which predisposes to nephrolithiasis and osteoporosis.

(Blind Loop Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)