BILE SALT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bile salt mean? 

• BILE SALT (noun)
  The noun BILE SALT has 1 sense:

1. a salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids

  Familiarity information: BILE SALT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILE SALT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bile salt" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

 Context examples 

These vitamins are lipo-soluble; absorption via intestinal lymphatics requires the presence of bile salts.

(Phytonadione, NCI Thesaurus)

Crilvastatin acts by stimulating LDL-cholesterol uptake by hepatocytes and also by stimulating bile cholesterol and bile salt secretion.

(Crilvastatin, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common human bile salts are sodium glycocholate and sodium taurocholate.

(Bile Salt, NCI Thesaurus)