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vitamin A
a fat-soluble aliphatic alcohol, CHOH, found in fish-liver oil, egg yolk, butter, etc. or derived from carotene in carrots and other vegetables: a deficiency of this vitamin results in night blindness, a general susceptibility to infections, and degeneration of epithelial tissue: it usually occurs in two forms, vitamin A, having the formula above, and vitamin A, CHOH
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