cholesterin

See also: Cholesterin

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Noun

cholesterin (countable and uncountable, plural cholesterins)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cholesterin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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