单词 | vitamin |
释义 | vitamin —vitaminic, adj. /vuy"teuh min/; Brit. also /vit"euh min/, n. any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders. Also, vitamine /vuy"teuh min, -meen'/; Brit. also /vit"euh min, -meen'/. [1912; earlier vitamine < L vit(a) life + AMINE; coined by C. Funk, who thought they were amines] |
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