Vitamin

Noun

 * 1) Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:vitamin

Derived terms
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 * vitamer
 * vitaminic
 * vitaminize
 * vitamin A
 * vitamin A acid
 * vitamin B
 * vitamin B complex, vitamin Bc, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B4, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B7, vitamin B9, vitamin B12, vitamin B17
 * vitamin C
 * vitamin D
 * vitamin D1, vitamin D2, vitamin D3, vitamin D4, vitamin D5


 * vitamin E
 * vitamin F
 * vitamin G
 * vitamin H
 * vitamin J
 * vitamin K
 * vitamin K1, vitamin K2
 * vitamin M
 * vitamin P
 * vitamin R
 * vitamin V

Thesaurus
adermin, adjuvant, aneurin, antiberi-beri factor, ascorbic acid, axerophthol, biotin, carminative, carotene, cholecalciferol, choline, cobalamin, counterirritant, cryptoxanthin, cyanocobalamin, emmenagogue, ergocalciferol, expectorant, folic acid, hepatoflavin, hormone, inositol, lactoflavin, maturative, menadione, naphthoquinone, niacin, nicotinic acid, ovoflavin, pyridoxine, tocopherol, vasodilator, vitamin B, vitamin Bc, vitamin D, vitamin G, vitamin H, vitamin K, vitamin M

Etymology
1920, originally vitamine (1912), from vita: (see vital:) + amine: (see amino acid:). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for neutral substances of undefined composition. Drummond introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) also at this same time.

Translations

 * Arabic: فيتامين
 * Belarusian: вітамін
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: vitamina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vitamiin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 비타민
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ജീവകം (jeevakam)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: vitamini
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вітамін
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Galician: vitamínico, vitamínica


 * Spanish: vitamínico, vitamínica

Noun

 * 1) vitamin

Related terms

 * A-vitamin, B-vitamin, C-vitamin, D-vitamin, E-vitamin, K-vitamin
 * multivitamin
 * provitamin
 * vitaminholdig
 * vitaminisere