VITAMIN K

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitamin K mean? 

• VITAMIN K (noun)
  The noun VITAMIN K has 1 sense:

1. a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood

  Familiarity information: VITAMIN K used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITAMIN K (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

antihemorrhagic factor; naphthoquinone; vitamin K

Hypernyms ("vitamin K" is a kind of...):

fat-soluble vitamin (any vitamin that is soluble in fats)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vitamin K"):

phylloquinone; phytonadione; vitamin K1; menadione; vitamin K3 (a form of vitamin K)

 Context examples 

An analogue of the naphthoquinone vitamin K found in plants.

(Phytonadione, NCI Thesaurus)

Getting enough vitamin A, vitamin K, magnesium, zinc and copper were all associated with a lower risk of dying early, the researchers found — but only when those nutrients came from food.

(Healthy Diet Can't Be Replaced by Vitamins, Supplements, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by intestinal microflora.

(Intestinal microflora, NCI Dictionary)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by gut flora.

(Gut flora, NCI Dictionary)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by gut microflora.

(Gut microflora, NCI Dictionary)

An oral anticoagulant that interferes with the metabolism of vitamin K. It is also used in biochemical experiments as an inhibitor of reductases.

(Dicumarol, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by microflora.

(Microflora, NCI Dictionary)

This species is nonmotile, homofermentative, indole negative, produces vitamin K, lactase and amylase and does not ferment mannitol.

(Lactobacillus acidophilus, NCI Thesaurus)

Vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K are made by intestinal flora.

(Intestinal flora, NCI Dictionary)

Causes include vitamin K deficiency, amyloidosis, and severe liver disease.

(Acquired Coagulation Factor Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)