Definition of Sterol

1. Noun. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances.

Exact synonyms: Steroid Alcohol
Generic synonyms: Alcohol, Steroid
Specialized synonyms: Cholesterin, Cholesterol, Ergosterol

Definition of Sterol

1. Noun. (biochemistry) any member of a class of steroids containing a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring; they are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sterol

1. a type of solid alcohol [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterol

sternwheels
steroid alcohol
steroid hormone
steroidal
steroidally
steroidlike
steroidogeneses
steroidogenesis
steroidogenetic
steroidogenic
steroidogenicer
steroidogenicest
steroids
steroisomeric
sterol (current term)
sterols
sterquilinous
sterre
sterres
sterrink
sterrinks
sterrometal
sterryite
stertor
stertorous
stertorously
stertorousness
stertors
sterve

Literary usage of Sterol

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

1. Code of Federal Regulations 21 Food and Drugs: Parts 100 to 169 Revised as by U.s. Gpo (2005)
"(3) Scientific evidence demonstrates that diets that include plant sterol/ stanol esters may reduce the risk of CHD. (b) Significance of the relationship ..."

2. The Examination of Hydrocarbon Oils and of Saponifiable Fats and Waxes by David Holde (1922)
"sterol, and by precipitation from the fatty acids after saponification of the fat there is obtained the total content of sterol; free sterol but not a fatty ..."

3. Plantation Rubber and the Testing of Rubber by George Stafford Whitby (1920)
"It contains no sterol-like bodies. On hydrolysis it gives an acid (mp 119°) of the cinnamic ... O. The other does not give the sterol colour reactions. ..."

4. Tissue Culture: Plants : A Bibliography, January 1991-April 1993. by Henry Gilbert (1994)
"Celery cells were tolerant to squalene accumulation; inhibition of growth of cultures was associated with a fall in the free sterol content below about l ..."

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