OLEIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oleic acid mean? 

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

1. a colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLEIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

monounsaturated fatty acid (an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in olive oil and chicken and almonds)

Holonyms ("oleic acid" is a substance of...):

canola; canola oil (vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids)

olive oil (oil from olives)

 Context examples 

The surfactant mannide monooleate in Montanide ISA 51 VG is derived from vegetable-grade (VG) oleic acid that was purified from olive oil.

(NY-ESO-1 Protein Vaccine Plus Montanide ISA-51 VG, NCI Thesaurus)

Mean levels of oleic acid, the constituent of olive oil, remained stable in both treatment groups.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

A synthetic preparation of oleic acid and ethanolamine, a first generation monoethanolamine with sclerotherapeutic activity.

(Ethanolamine Oleate, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, the relative proportion of oleic acid was higher in children who consumed a lot of sugar and lower in children who consumed plenty of whole grain products.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The surfactant mannide monooleate in Montanide ISA 51 VG contains vegetable-grade (VG) oleic acid derived from olive oil.

(Montanide ISA 51 VG, NCI Thesaurus)

Other recent developments in crop biotechnology listed in the report include GM sugarcane that is resistant to insects and drought, GM apples that do not turn brown, GM canola and safflower that have high levels of oleic acid which has anti-cancer properties.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Additionally, the fish oil/glycerol/egg lecithin-based emulsion contains, myristic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, octadecatetraenoic acid, eicosaenoic acid, arachidonic acid, docosaenoic acid, and docosapentaenoic acid.

(Fish Oil/Glycerol/Egg Lecithin-based Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)

The oleic acid component may also transiently activate coagulation and fibrinolytic systems through the release of tissue factor and activation of Hageman factor.

(Ethanolamine Oleate, NCI Thesaurus)