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Definition of Phytol

1. an alcohol [n -S] - See also: alcohol

Medical Definition of Phytol

1. Long chain fatty alcohol (C20) forming part of chlorophyll, attached to the protoporphyrin ring by an ester linkage. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytol

Literary usage of Phytol

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

1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1901)
"1843 640 Supposed new British fern [see last]. PhytoL, i. 526. 1843. ... phytol., v. 18-20. 1854. 648 Contributions towards the History of an Irish ..."

2. Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1920)
"... difficulty involved in purifying the decomposition products of phytol, ... on the subject 2 which have now been corrected.3 phytol has the composition ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1846)
"... in the January number of the 'phytologist' (phytol. ii. 389), records the fact of Mimulus luteus having been met with in several situations in Scotland ..."

4. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Chlorophyll is, therefore, a phytol-ester of a nitrogenous acid chlorophyllin, which contains magnesium in organic combination. ..."

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