"vitamin K" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-vitamin K.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Named similarly to the other vitamins, that are named after their order of discovery. This one was assigned its "K" from Danish koagulation by the Danish researcher Henrik Dam. Etymology templates: {{der|en|da|koagulation}} Danish koagulation Head templates: {{en-noun|-|head=vitamin K}} vitamin K (uncountable)
  1. Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Vitamins Derived forms: vitamin K1, vitamin K2 Related terms: naphthoquinone Translations (any of a number of fat-soluble vitamins): ვიტამინი K (viṭamini K) (Georgian), K ვიტამინი (K viṭamini) (Georgian), vitamini K (Swahili)
    Sense id: en-vitamin_K-en-noun-S-udHzzl Disambiguation of Vitamins: 59 41 Disambiguation of 'any of a number of fat-soluble vitamins': 92 8
  2. (slang) The drug ketamine. Tags: slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Recreational drugs
    Sense id: en-vitamin_K-en-noun-WKElxcqh Disambiguation of Recreational drugs: 33 67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 34 66 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 41 59

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