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Definition of Tributyrin
1. Noun. A bitter oily triglyceride of butyric acid; a form of butyrin.
Definition of Tributyrin
1. Noun. (organic compound) The triglyceride of butyric acid; butyrin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Tributyrin
1. A synthetic substrate for lipase assays. Synonym: glyceryl tributyrate, tributyrylglycerol. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tributyrin
Literary usage of Tributyrin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Chemicals Codex: First Supplement to the Fifth Edition by Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"Internal Standard Solution Dissolve a suitable quantity of tributyrin, accurately
weighed, in chloroform and dilute quantitatively with chloroform to obtain ..."
2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The behavior of these dilute aqueous organic extracts containing lipase toward
tributyrin and the poison, as compared with that of the serum lipase under ..."
3. Milk by Paul Gustav Heinemann (1919)
"tributyrin is contained in butter-fat in quantities of 1.5 to 5 per cent., ...
Being soluble in water, tributyrin would impart its characteristic bitter ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"They conclude that there is no tributyrin in butter-fat, and probably no tri-
olein, the oleic acid being distributed among the glycerides present, ..."
5. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"1. By oxidation of primary butyl alcohol.* — '2. By saponification of ordinary
butler, which contains tributyrin: (C,H5)'"(OC<H,0), ..."
6. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Recent work by Caldwell and Hurtley points to the absence of tributyrin in butter.
When it becomes rancid by the action of bacteria—which contain the enzyme ..."
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