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calciferols

calciferols is the plural of calciferol.

Meaning of calciferol

Noun

calciferol (uncountable)

  1. Vitamin D₃ (C₂₇H₄₄O)
    • Owing to the exceptional difficulty of purification in the sterol group, we cannot yet be certain that this substance is a single compound, but we think the provisional adoption of a new name is justified, for the sake of convenience, and suggest “Calciferol” in view of the high antirachitic...1931 June 1, T. C. Angus, F. A. Askew, R. B. Bourdillon, Hilda M. Bruce, Robert Kenneth Callow, Catherine Fischmann, J. St L. Philpot, T. A. Webster, “A crystalline antirachitic substance”, in...
    Synonyms:
    cholecalciferol

Questions about calciferols

What is calciferols the plural of?
Calciferols is the plural of calciferol.

Words near calciferols in the dictionary

  1. Calcidian
  2. calcidiol
  3. Calcidius
  4. calcifediol
  5. calciferol
  6. calciferols
  7. calciferous
  8. calcifiability
  9. calcifiable
  10. calcific
  11. calcificate

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