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Definition of Cod liver oil

1. Noun. An oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D.

Definition of Cod liver oil

1. Noun. A nutritional supplement derived from the liver of cod fish which has high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA, and very high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D. ¹

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Medical Definition of Cod liver oil

1. The partially destearinated fixed oil obtained from fresh livers of gadus morrhua and other species of gadidae, the cod family. It is used as a source of vitamins a and d. In veterinary medicine, it is also used topically to promote wound healing and in abscesses, burns, and dermatoses. Chemical name: Cod-liver oil (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Cod liver oil

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.) (1862)
"Administration of Cod-Liver Oil and Iron.—M. JANOTA describes i method of administering iron in combination with cod-liver oil. The iron is combined with ..."

2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"Genuine cod liver oil is obtained from the liver of the cod, ... The following three qualities of cod liver oil, as obtained by the natural decay of the ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The chemical composition of the cod liver oil glycerides is not yet completely known. Small quantities of palmitin occur in the oil, and are the cause of ..."

4. Bulletin by National Canners Association (1917)
"If one or two per cent of cod liver oil was included in these low phosphorus or ... The cod liver oil of course supplied neither calcium nor phosphorus but ..."

5. American Druggist (1888)
"Detection of Vegetable Oils in Cod-Liver Oil. PROF. E. SALKOWSKI has published a lengthy paper on methods of testing cod-liver oil and vegetable oils in the ..."

6. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1906)
"Cod-liver oil has been long used by the fishermen of the North Sea as a ... Cod-liver oil probably contains the ordinary constituents of an animal fat, ..."

7. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1854)
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DEODORIZING COD-LIVER OIL. BY SIR JAMES MURRAY, KNT., ... I FIND by experiment that cod-liver oil possesses the property of dissolving ..."

8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1895)
"OWING to precautions taken in its manufacture to avoid nauseous oxidation products, the "Per- fected'' Cod-liver Oil is the best preparation alone, ..."

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