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OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID
Dictionary entry overview: What does omega-6 fatty acid mean?
• OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID (noun)
The noun OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID has 1 sense:
1. a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning
Familiarity information: OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
omega-6; omega-6 fatty acid
Hypernyms ("omega-6 fatty acid" is a kind of...):
polyunsaturated fatty acid (an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omega-6 fatty acid"):
linolenic acid (a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid that occurs in some plant oils; an essential fatty acid)
Context examples
A slightly altered form of linoleic acid, which is an omega-6 fatty acid important to human health.
(Conjugated Linoleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A convention for categorizing the physiological properties of a fatty acid by indicating the location of its double bond as counted from the terminal methyl carbon (designated as x or omega) (e.g., omega-6 fatty acid).
(n-x Nomenclature, NCI Thesaurus)
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