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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crystalline acid, C26H45NO7S, involved in the emulsification of fats and occurring as a sodium salt in the bile of humans, oxen, and other mammals.
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- noun organic chemistry A
deliquescent yellowish crystalline bile acid involved in theemulsification offats , aconjugate ofcholic acid withtaurine .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek tauros, bull (from its having been obtained first from ox bile); see tauro- in Indo-European roots + cholic acid.]
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