VITAMIN B1

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitamin B1 mean? 

• VITAMIN B1 (noun)
  The noun VITAMIN B1 has 1 sense:

1. a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth

  Familiarity information: VITAMIN B1 used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITAMIN B1 (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

aneurin; antiberiberi factor; thiamin; thiamine; vitamin B1

Hypernyms ("vitamin B1" 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 

A psychotic syndrome caused by damage to the brain by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1).

(Korsakoff Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) and characterized by polyneuritis, cardiac pathology, and edema.

(Beri Beri, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)