Definition of Cholate

1. n. A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

Definition of Cholate

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of cholic acid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cholate

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cholate

1. In practice, the sodium salt of cholic acid, that has strong detergent properties and can replace membrane lipids to generate soluble complexes of membrane proteins. (15 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholate

cholangiopathy
cholangioscopy
cholangiostomy
cholangiotomy
cholangitic abscess
cholangitides
cholangitis
cholangitis lenta
cholanic acid
cholanoic acid
cholanopoiesis
cholanopoietic
cholanthrene
cholas
cholascos
cholate (current term)
cholates
chole-
cholecalciferol
cholecalcin
cholecarciferol
cholechromopoiesis
cholecyst
cholecystagogic
cholecystagogue
cholecystatony
cholecystectasia
cholecystectomies
cholecystectomy
cholecystenterostomy

Literary usage of Cholate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1871)
"The two substances described above as the tauro-cholate and glyko-cholate of soda exist, properly speaking, only in the bile of the ox, where they were ..."

2. Chemistry for Students by Alexander William Williamson (1868)
"These crystals consist of two sodic salts which have been called by Strecker .cholate and taurocholate. Each of these salts contains carbon, hydrogen, ..."

3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1896)
"THE BILE-SALTS (GLYCO- AND TAURO-cholate OF SODA) IN THEIR RELATION TO THE SECRETION OF UREA, &c. By GH EDINGTON, MB Glasgow. (PLATE VI. ..."

4. The Physiology of Man: Designed to Represent the Existing State of by Austin Flint (1874)
"General properties of the bile—Composition of the bile—Biliary salts—Tauro- cholate of ... cholate ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"Aqueous cholate of potash, containing 3 pc of cholic acid, forms, on addition of chloride of calcium, a thick paste, which is converted by ether into ..."

6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The bile secretion curve rises steeply, attains its greatest height in 1-2 minutes after sodium cholate and its paired products, in the second minute after ..."

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