VITAMIN E


Meaning of VITAMIN E in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1925

: any of several fat-soluble vitamins that are chemically tocopherols, are essential in the nutrition of various vertebrates in which their absence is associated with infertility, degenerative changes in muscle, or vascular abnormalities, are found especially in leaves and in seed germ oils, and are used chiefly in animal feeds and as antioxidants

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