bile salt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of the sodium salts of the bile acids occurring in bile.
• noun A mixture, such as a commercial preparation derived from the bile of the ox, that is used medicinally as a hepatic stimulant or laxative.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun the salt of a bile acid, for example, sodium glycocholate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The sodium salt of a bile acid; produced by the bile to neutralize the products leaving the stomach and to emulsify fatty material in it

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids