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Vitamin Glossary
"O"
- occipital bone- a
bone in the lower back part of the skull between the
parietal and temporal bones.
- oxidants- substances that
cause oxidation.
- oxidation- a type of
chemical reaction in which an electron is attracted away
from the oxidized entity. Oxygen is the most familiar
oxidizer.
- oxidized cholesterol-
see oxysterol.
- oxygenation- to supply
or combine with oxygen.
- oxysterol- when
cholesterol combines with oxygen and becomes oxidized, is
then known as oxysterol.
- ozone-an excited, highly
oxidized form of oxygen; its formula is O3. It attacks a
wide variety of organic molecules, particularly lipids,
often producing free radicals in the process.
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