Organic Chemical
dietary sterol
die·tar·y ste·rol
Definitions related to dietary sterol:
  • A class of dietary steroids having a hydrocarbon side-chain of 8-10 carbons at the 17-beta position and a hydroxyl group (-OH) at the 3-beta position.
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • Any substance found in the diet, comprising a cholestane skeleton with a hydroxyl group at the position C-3. They occur naturally in plants, animals and fungi.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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