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    AXEROPHTHOL

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyesplay

    Synonyms:

    A; antiophthalmic factor; axerophthol; vitamin A

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    Nouns denoting substances

    Hypernyms ("axerophthol" is a kind of...):

    fat-soluble vitamin (any vitamin that is soluble in fats)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "axerophthol"):

    retinol; vitamin A1 (an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene)

    dehydroretinol; vitamin A2 (a viscous alcohol that is less active in mammals than is vitamin A1)

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