Definition of Phytosterols

1. Noun. (plural of phytosterol) ¹

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Definition of Phytosterols

1. phytosterol [n] - See also: phytosterol

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytosterols

phytosanitary
phytosaur
phytosaurs
phytosemiotic
phytosemiotics
phytoses
phytosiderophore
phytosiderophores
phytosis
phytosociology
phytosphingosine
phytostabilisation
phytostabilisations
phytosterol
phytosterolaemia
phytosterols (current term)
phytostimulation
phytostimulations
phytotaxonomic
phytotelma
phytotelmata
phytotelmatum
phytotherapeutics
phytotherapy
phytotomist
phytotomists
phytotomy
phytotoxic
phytotoxicant
phytotoxicants

Literary usage of Phytosterols

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1921)
"Until recently the chemistry of the several " phytosterols " isolated from ... At first the phytosterols were identified with cholesterol (Beneke,2 ..."

2. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Compounds very similar to cholesterol have been prepared from plants and have been termed phytosterols. They are probably mixtures of isomeric compounds, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1910)
"Coltsfoot—New phytosterols in the Flowers,—T. ... Unlike the phytosterols of chamomile and of arnica, these bodies are not found in the petroleum-ether ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1910)
"According to Gerard (Compt. rend., 1892, 114, 1544) the phytosterols of cryptogams quite generally appear to differ from those of phanerogams by having a ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"It consisted in part of a crystalline mixture of phytosterols and also of an oily fraction which remains in the mother liquors after the separation of the ..."

6. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Of 60 species stated to contain such glucosides 20 are grasses. Phytosterolins.—A number of glucosides of phytosterols have been isolated from plants of ..."

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