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Definition of Cholesterin

1. Noun. An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues.

Definition of Cholesterin

1. n. A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

Definition of Cholesterin

1. Noun. (organic compound) A white, fatty, crystalline substance found in animal and plant products and tissue, especially in nerve tissue, bile, and gallstones. ¹

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Medical Definition of Cholesterin

1. 1. A pearly, fatlike steroid alcohol, C27H45OH, crystallizing in the form of leaflets or plates from dilute alcohol and found in animal fats and oils, in bile, blood, brain tissue, milk, yolk of egg, myelin sheaths of nerve fibres, the liver, kidneys and adrenal glands. It constitutes a large part of the most frequently occurring type of gallstones and occurs in atheroma of the arteries, in various cysts and in carcinomatous tissue. Most of the bodys cholesterol is synthesised in the liver, but some is absorbed from the diet. It is a precursor of bile acids and is important in the synthesis of steroid hormones. 2. A commercial preparation of cholesterol is used as a pharmaceutic aid. Synonym: cholesterin. Origin: Gr. Stereos = solid (15 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Cholesterin

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The drainage tube should not be removed until the blood and bile show a normal cholesterin content, and during this period the diet should be low in ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"If the amount of cholesterin required is proportional to the venom used, the presumption would naturally be that it reacted with that substance, ..."

3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"In the quantitative estimation of cholesterin in liver fat the values obtained by precipitation with digitonin (gravimetric analysis) and those obtained by ..."

4. American Druggist (1888)
"On the other hand, the test has a remote resemblance to that for cholesterin, if the latter is dissolved in chloroform, as Salkowski advises. ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"cholesterin is a substance which occurs very frequently, ... cholesterin exists in considerable proportion in the fatty matter of sheep's wool, ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"After feeding with cholesterin or with cholesterin- containing foods, ... Since cholesterin is excreted in the bile, it would appear that its increase in ..."

7. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Now cholesterin is not a fat but an alcohol ; like glycerine, however, which is also an alcohol, it forms compounds with fatty acids ; and though we do not ..."

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