MYRISTIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myristic acid mean? 

• MYRISTIC ACID (noun)
  The noun MYRISTIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYRISTIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

myristic acid; tetradecanoic acid

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

saturated fatty acid (a fatty acid whose carbon chain cannot absorb any more hydrogen atoms; found chiefly in animal fats)

 Context examples 

Myristic acid is found naturally in palm oil, coconut oil and butter fat.

(Myristic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

N-Myristoylation is the covalent attachment of myristic acid, a saturated 14-carbon fatty acid inserted in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the lipid bilayer, by an amide linkage to the amino-terminal glycine residue of a protein in order to increase the hydrophobicity of some membrane proteins or to promote membrane localization of some cytoplasmic proteins.

(N-Myristoylation, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally, the fish oil/glycerol/egg lecithin-based emulsion contains, myristic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, octadecatetraenoic acid, eicosaenoic acid, arachidonic acid, docosaenoic acid, and docosapentaenoic acid.

(Fish Oil/Glycerol/Egg Lecithin-based Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)