Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation; -- called also
vitamin P .
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- noun a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation
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Since the discovery of Flavonoids in 1936 when they were first isolated from lemons and called citrin and Vitamin P over 4,000 different types have been characterized.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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_mensæ nucinæ_, were once in price even before the _citrin_, as Strabo notes; and nothing can be more beautiful than some planks and works which I have beheld of it, especially that which comes from Grenoble, of all other the most beautiful and esteemed.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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