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UNDECYLENIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undecylenic acid mean?
• UNDECYLENIC ACID (noun)
The noun UNDECYLENIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. an acid that is a component of perspiration
Familiarity information: UNDECYLENIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acid that is a component of perspiration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("undecylenic acid" is a kind of...):
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
Context examples
The copper salt of undecylenic acid, an 11 carbon mono-unsaturated fatty acid with broad-spectrum antifungal activity.
(Copper Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)
The calcium salt of undecylenic acid, an 11 carbon mono-unsaturated fatty acid with broad-spectrum antifungal activity.
(Calcium Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)
Undecylenic acid inhibits the morphogenesis of Candida albicans to its invasive fungal form and inhibits conversion of unicellular yeast to their hyphal form.
(Copper Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)
Undecylenic acid inhibits the morphogenesis of Candida albicans to its invasive fungal form and inhibits the conversion of unicellular yeast to their hyphal form.
(Calcium Undecylenate, NCI Thesaurus)
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