noun Date: 1948 a complex cobalt-containing compound C 63 H 88 CoN 14 O 14 P that occurs especially in liver, is essential to normal blood formation, neural function, and growth, and is used especially in treating pernicious and related anemias and in animal feed as a growth factor, any of several compounds similar to vitamin B 12 in action but having different chemistry
VITAMIN B12
Meaning of VITAMIN B12 in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012