Vitamin A variety in medicine and cosmetics

• Eye cream additive
• An unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene
• Vitamin A form
• Another name for vitamin A
• Anti-aging vitamin
• Skin cream ingredient

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene [syn: vitamin A1 ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic compound biochemistry English) A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Retinol ( Vitamin A ) is one of the animal forms of vitamin A . It is a diterpenoid and an alcohol. It is convertible to other forms of vitamin A, and the retinyl ester derivative of the alcohol serves as the storage form of the vitamin in animals. When ...