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niacin

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Word definitions for niacin in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pellagra-preventing vitamin in enriched bread," 1942, coined from ni(cotinic) ac(id) + -in (2), chemical suffix; suggested by the American Medical Association as a more commercially viable name than nicotinic acid. The new name was found to be necessary ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context vitamin English) A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract [syn: nicotinic acid ]

Usage examples of niacin.

It gives you 892 milligrams of potassium and well over your daily requirement for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, and folacin, not to mention half of your daily requirement for niacin, B6, and iron, and good doses of calcium, zinc, and B1.

I shall call you, respectively, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pyridoxine and Cobalamin.

And even with all this, you probably also take Wakup pills, energisers, tranks, niacin, riboflavin, ascorbic acid - I've been going through a friend's medicine cabinet, and they're all there.

And even with all this, you probably also take Wakup pills, energisers, tranks, niacin, riboflavin, ascorbic acid - I'.

After his heart attack, the doctors had injected him with nanos that included a niacin module to lower his cholesterol levels, agents to dissolve blood clots and improve circulation, and beta-blockers to reduce his blood pressure and heart rate.

At first, her parents thought she had gotten hold of some of the LSD which was known to be infiltrating the local grammar school and, being fairly hip, they fed her niacin and horse doctor's doses of vitamin C as she ran about the house alternately laughing and making faces at them, howling about "he's laying in his own piss" and "he's still alive inside it" and "Roderick Usher.