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Definition: Retinol |
RetinolNoun1. An unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Vitamin A. It is essential for proper vision and healthy skin and mucous membranes. Retinol is being studied for cancer prevention; it belongs to the family of drugs called retinoids. (references) |
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A deficiency of vitamin A is not only disease causing, but it can kill. On the other hand, overdoses of vitamin A are also lethal. The livers of certain animals, especially those adapted to polar environments, often contain amounts of vitamin A that would be toxic to humans. The first documented death due to vitamin A poisioning was Xavier Mertz, a Swiss scientist who died in January 1913 on an Antarctic expedition that had lost its food supplies and fell to eating its sled dogs. Mertz consumed lethal amounts of vitamin A by eating sled dog liver. The liver of the polar bear also has enough vitamin A to kill a human being.
Deficiency of Vitamin A can cause night-blindness, pale, dry skin. Vitamin A is found in Carrot, Spinach, Milk and Egg. Vitamin A gets destroyed at about 40 degree centigrade, hence these foods must be consumed raw in order to avail maximum benefit.
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Synonym: RetinolSynonym: vitamin A1 (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Retinol |
| Specialty definitions using "retinol": Receptors, Retinoic Acid, Retinol-Binding Proteins. (references) |
| "Retinol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Retinol" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
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Beginning with "retinol": retinol-binding, Retinol-Binding Proteins. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
retinol a | 277 | acne retinol | 3 |
retinol cream | 31 | 8 glytone retinol | 3 |
vitamin a retinol | 13 | 50 retinol | 2 |
retinol a and pregnancy | 6 | retinol a skin care | 2 |
retinol a wrinkle treatment | 6 | retinol treatment | 2 |
retinol product | 6 | retinol actif pur roc | 2 |
pro retinol | 5 | cream green retinol | 2 |
roc retinol | 4 | retinol palmitate | 2 |
metabolism retinol | 4 | effects retinol side | 2 |
50 emolugel retinol | 3 | equivalent retinol | 2 |
retinol pigmentation | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "retinol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | retinol (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | retinol (axerophtol, vitamin A1, vitamine A). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | retinoli (axerophtol, vitamin A1), A-vitamiini (axerophtol, E672, vitamin A1, vitamine A). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rétinol, vitamine A1. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Retinol (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρετινόλη (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | retinolo (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etinolray retinol (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) retinol (axerophtol, vitamin A1). (various references) retinol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "retinol": retinols. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: entoil, linter, loiter, neroli, norite, orient, toiler, tonier. | |
-2 letters: elint, eloin, enrol, inert, inlet, inter, intro, irone, lento, liner, lirot, liter, litre, loner, nerol, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, oiler, olein, oriel, relit, reoil, teloi, tenor, tiler, toile, toner, trine, triol, trone. | |
-3 letters: enol, inro, into, iron, leno, lent, lien, lier, line, lino, lint. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: oriental, outliner, relation, retinols, terpinol, trotline. | |
+2 letters: alienator, centriole, frontline, interflow, interfold, interlock, interlope, loitering, natrolite, orientals, outliners, rationale, reflation, relations, reliction, repletion, retooling, revolting, routinely, sclerotin, serotinal, terpineol, terpinols, thornlike, tormentil, trotlines, troweling. | |
+3 letters: alienators, alteration, anteriorly, bolstering, centrioles, chlorinate, citronella, clinometer, contritely, corelating, delineator, electroing, electronic, eliminator, fluorinate, fosterling, holstering, interfolds, interiorly, interlocal, interlocks, interloped, interloper, interlopes, intermodal, internodal, interzonal, intolerant, laceration, laureation, lectionary, liberation, literation, lobstering, monetarily, natrolites, neorealist, neutrophil, nonliteral, orientally, peritoneal, portliness, pratincole, prelection, rationales, rebottling, reclothing, reelection, reflations, reflection, refloating, regulation, relational, relaxation, relegation, relictions, relocating, relocation, repletions, replotting, resolution, revelation, revolution, ritornelli, ritornello, rouletting, sclerotins, senatorial, tenderloin, tendrilous, terpineols, tolerating, toleration, tormentils, torrential, tortellini, tourmaline, toweringly, trampoline, triskelion, trolleying, trowelling, twinflower, ulceration, urogenital, ventilator. | |
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