Steroid Alcohol (Noun)
Meaning
Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Cholesterol is one of the most well-known examples of a steroid alcohol found in the tissues of animals.
- Steroid alcohols like lanosterol play a vital role in the biosynthesis of cholesterol in animals.
- In the animal kingdom, the major sources of steroid alcoh, such as cholestratin and sitosterols, are in animal fat and bile.
- Duct lipids and cell membranes in animals and plants often contain small amounts of various steroid alcohols.
- Bacterial membrane is primarily composed of distinct kinds of lipids including phosphatides, fat and alcohol from a type of steroid alcohol called stolithoculli.