any of a class of lipids consisting of various saturated or unsaturated, monobasic organic acids, generally RCOOH, usually in a straight chain: they occur naturally in the form of glycerol esters in animal or vegetable fats and oils
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Any of a large group of monoprotic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils, having the general formula CnH2n+1COOH. Characteristically made up of saturated or unsaturated aliphatic compounds with an even number of carbon atoms, this group of acids includes palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids.
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Any of a large group of organic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils. Fatty acids are mainly composed of long chains of hydrocarbons ending in a carboxyl group. A fatty acid is saturated when the bonds between carbon atoms are all single bonds. It is unsaturated when any of these bonds is a double bond.
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Noun
(plural fatty acids)
Hyponyms
- See also fatty acid
- stearic acid - C18
- arachidic acid - C20
- obtusilic acid, caproleic acid - C10 unsaturated
- lauroleic acid, linderic acid - C12 unsaturated
- myristoleic acid, physeteric acid, tsuzuic acid - C14 unsaturated
- palmitoleic acid - C16 unsaturated
- petroselinic acid, oleic acid, vaccenic acid - C18 unsaturated
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fatty acid - Medical Definition
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Any of a large group of monoprotic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils, having the general formula CnH2n+1COOH. Characteristically made up of saturated or unsaturated aliphatic compounds with an even number of carbon atoms, this group of acids includes palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids.
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