fat-soluble
English
Adjective
fat-soluble (comparative more fat-soluble, superlative most fat-soluble)
- Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents.
- fat-soluble vitamin
- (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.
Translations
dissolving easily in fat
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See also
Further reading
- “fat-soluble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “fat-soluble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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