Retinol

retinol /ret·i·nol/ (ret´i-nol) vitamin A1; a 20-carbon primary alcohol in several isomers that is the form of vitamin A found in mammals and that can be converted to the metabolically active forms retinal and retinoic acid.

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ret·i·nol (rtn-ôl, -l)

n.

See vitamin A.

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Retinol

Another name for vitamin A.

Mentioned in: Vitamin Toxicity

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retinol

vitamin A₁; the form of vitamin A found in mammals, which is reversibly dehydrogenated by enzymatic action into its aldehyde, retinal (2).