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ursodeoxycholic acid

ursodeoxycholic acid noun: a bile acid, C₂₄H₄₀O₄, present in human bile at low concentrations and used as a medication for the treatment of various biliary and liver diseases.

Noun

ursodeoxycholic acid (uncountable)

  1. A bile acid, C₂₄H₄₀O₄, present in human bile at low concentrations and used as a medication for the treatment of various biliary and liver diseases.
    Synonyms:
    UDCA, ursodiol

ursodeoxycholic acid meaning in Arabic

ursodeoxycholic acid in Arabic

drug
حَامِض أُورْسُودِيُوكْسِيكُولِيك ḥāmiḍ ʔūrsūdiyūksīkūlīk

Synonyms of ursodeoxycholic acid

Origin of ursodeoxycholic acid

Calque of German Ursodesoxycholsäure; equivalent to Latin urs(us) (“bear”) + deoxycholic acid. In 1901–1902, Swedish biochemist Olof Hammarsten isolated an unknown bile acid from polar bear bile at Uppsala University, naming it Ursocholeinsäure (in German) in a two-part paper in Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie. In 1927, Japanese researcher Masato Shoda crystallized the compound from a commercial preparation of Asian black bear bile and found it to be an isomer of deoxycholic acid, renaming it Ursodesoxycholsäure (in German) in a paper in The Journal of Biochemistry.

Words formed from ursodeoxycholic acid

Questions about ursodeoxycholic acid

What does ursodeoxycholic acid mean?
Ursodeoxycholic acid means a bile acid, C₂₄H₄₀O₄, present in human bile at low concentrations and used as a medication for the treatment of various biliary and liver diseases.
What is ursodeoxycholic acid in Arabic?
Ursodeoxycholic acid in Arabic is حَامِض أُورْسُودِيُوكْسِيكُولِيك (ḥāmiḍ ʔūrsūdiyūksīkūlīk). See Ursodeoxycholic acid meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is ursodeoxycholic acid?
Ursodeoxycholic acid is a noun.

Words near ursodeoxycholic acid in the dictionary

  1. ursines
  2. Ursins
  3. ursodeoxycholate
  4. ursodeoxycholates
  5. ursodeoxycholic
  6. ursodeoxycholic acid
  7. ursodeoxycholyltaurine
  8. ursodiol
  9. ursoid
  10. ursoids
  11. ursolate

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