fat-soluble

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fat-soluble (comparative more fat-soluble, superlative most fat-soluble)

  1. Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents.
    fat-soluble vitamin
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) that tends to accumulate in the adipose tissue of the body
    • 2007, Bryan Rosner, Julie Byers, Michael Huckleberry, The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments, page 143:
      Lyme Disease toxins and most of the toxins produced by industrialized manufacturing are fat-soluble, so named because they accumulate in the body's fat stores.

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