| oleomargarine | 1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (especially. Beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. 2. An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake. Origin: L. Oleum oil + E. Margarine, margarin Alternative forms: oleomargarin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| oleometer | <chemistry> An instrument for ascertaining the weight and purity of oil; an elaiometer. Origin: L. Oleum oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oleone | <chemistry> An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid. Origin: L. Oleum + -one, 1. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oleopalmitate | A double salt of oleic and palmitic acids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleoptene | <chemistry> See Eleoptene. Origin: L. Oleum oil + Cr. Fleeting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oleoresin | 1. <chemistry> A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin. 2. <medicine> A liquid or semiliquid preparation extracted (as from capsicum, cubebs, or ginger) by means of ether, and consisting of fixed or volatile oil holding resin in solution. Oleores"inous. Origin: L.oleum oil + E. Resin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oleosaccharum | A class of preparations made by the trituration of a volatile oil (anise, fennel, lemon, etc.) with sugar; used as a diluent or corrigent of powerful or bad tasting drugs in powder form. Synonym: oil sugar. Origin: oleo-+ G. Saccharon, sugar (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleosome | <cell biology> Plant spherosome rich in lipid that serves as a storage granule in seeds and fruits. There are none of the enzymes characteristic of lysosomes. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (18 Nov 1997) |
| oleostearate | A double salt of oleic and stearic acids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleosus | Greasy; relating to abnormality of the sebaceous apparatus. Origin: L., fr. Oleum, oil (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleotherapy | Treatment of disease by an oil given internally or applied externally. Synonym: eleotherapy. Origin: oleo-+ G. Therapeia, therapy (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleovitamin | A solution of a vitamin in an edible oil. Oleovitamin A and D, a solution of vitamins A and D in fish liver oil or in an edible vegetable oil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleum terebinthinae | A volatile oil, distilled from turpentine, that has been used as a diuretic, carminative, vermifuge, expectorant, rubefacient, and counterirritant. Synonym: oleum terebinthinae, turpentine spirit. Rectified turpentine oil, obtained by treating turpentine oil with sodium hydroxide, and redistilling; used externally as a counterirritant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleyl alcohol | A mixture of aliphatic alcohols consisting chiefly of CH3(CH2)7CH==CH(CH2)7CH2OH; used as an emulsifying aid and in the preparation of cold cream; found in fish oils. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oleyl-anilide hydrolase | <enzyme> Widely distributed in rat tissues, particularly in adipose tissue; probably not due to aryl acylamidase (EC 3.5.1.13) Registry number: EC 3.5.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |