FOLIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does folic acid mean? 

• FOLIC ACID (noun)
  The noun FOLIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction

  Familiarity information: FOLIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

folacin; folate; folic acid; pteroylglutamic acid; pteroylmonoglutamic acid; vitamin Bc; vitamin M

Hypernyms ("folic acid" is a kind of...):

B; B-complex vitamin; B complex; B vitamin; vitamin B; vitamin B complex (originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins)

 Context examples 

The study found folic acid alone and B-vitamins with folic acid may reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke.

(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This protein plays a role in folic acid metabolism.

(C-1-Tetrahydrofolate Synthase, Cytoplasmic, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to lessen the toxic effects of substances that block the action of folic acid, especially the anticancer drug methotrexate.

(Calcium levoleucovorin, NCI Dictionary)

Taking folic acid can help prevent some birth defects.

(Birth Defects, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Control of methionine intake and supplementing folic acid and vitamin B12 in the diet are used to lower homocysteine levels.

(Biosynthesis of Cysteine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Mediated through the folate moiety, this agent delivers the antimitotic epothilone component into cells expressing folic acid receptors, frequently upregulated in many types of tumor cells.

(Folate Receptor Targeted Epothilone BMS753493, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called folate antagonist and folic acid antagonist.

(Antifolate, NCI Dictionary)

B vitamins include thiamine, riboflavin, niacin (nicotinic acid), niacinamide (nicotinamide), the vitamin B6 group (including pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine), biotin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, and possibly para-aminobenzoic.

(B Vitamin, NCI Thesaurus)

Citrovorum factor is a form of folic acid.

(Citrovorum factor, NCI Dictionary)

B12 improves iron functions in the metabolic cycle and assists folic acid in choline synthesis.

(Cyanocobalamin, NCI Thesaurus)