"bile acid" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bile acids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bile acid (plural bile acids)
  1. any of the steroid acids produced by the liver, such as cholic acid, that occur in bile as sodium salts and serve to neutralize the contents of the stomach as they enter the duodenum and to aid the emulsification and absorption of fats Wikipedia link: Bile acid Related terms: bile salt Translations (bile acid): sappihappo (Finnish), Gallensäure [feminine] (German), epesav (Hungarian), acido biliare [masculine] (Italian), 胆汁酸 (tanjūsan) (alt: たんじゅうさん) (Japanese), же́лчная кислота́ (žélčnaja kislotá) [feminine] (Russian), gallsyra [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bile_acid-en-noun-pag-z02P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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