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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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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  1. n. organic chemistry A deliquescent yellowish crystalline bile acid involved in the emulsification of fats, a conjugate of cholic acid with taurine.

Etymologies

  1. Greek tauros, bull (from its having been obtained first from ox bile); + cholic acid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. acidum cholatauricum
  1. cholaic acid
  1. cholyltaurine

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  1. taurine
  1. taurocholic
  1. cholic acid
  1. chenotaurocholic
  1. taurocholate

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