| stearal | Octadecanal(dehyde);the aldehyde of stearic acid. Synonym: stearaldehyde. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| stearaldehyde | Octadecanal(dehyde);the aldehyde of stearic acid. Synonym: stearaldehyde. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stearate | <chemistry> A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stearates | Salts and esters of the 18-carbon saturated, monocarboxylic acid--stearic acid. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stearic | <physiology> Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow. <chemistry> Stearic acid, a monobasic fatty acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69 deg C. Origin: Cf. F. Stearique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stearic acid | Organic, monobasic acids derived from hydrocarbons by the equivalent of oxidation of a methyl group to an alcohol, aldehyde, and then acid. Fatty acids are saturated and unsaturated (fatty acids, unsaturated). (12 Dec 1998) |
| stearic acids | A group of compounds that are derivatives of octadecanoic acid which is one of the most abundant fatty acids found in animal lipids. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stearin | <physiology> One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterised by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate. Origin: Gr. Tallow, suet: cf. F. Stearine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Stearns alcoholic amentia | A temporary alcoholic mental disorder resembling delirium tremens but lasting for a longer time and showing a greater degree of amnesia and other mental defects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stearns, A Warren | <person> U.S. Physician, 1885-1959. See: Stearns alcoholic amentia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stearo- | Combining form denoting fat. See: steato-. Origin: G. Stear, tallow (05 Mar 2000) |
| stearolic | <chemistry> Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid. Origin: Stearic + oleic + -ic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stearone | <chemistry> The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stearoptene | <chemistry> The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; contrasted with elaeoptene. Origin: Stearic + -optene as in elaeoptene. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stearoyl transacylase | <enzyme> From bovine testis membrnes; CoA dependent; transfers stearoyl groups from a variety of phospholipids to sn-2-arachidonoyl lysophosphatidic acid Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- Synonym: stearoyl acyltransferase (26 Jun 1999) |