What is "cyanocobalamin"

n. (context vitamin English) cobalmin.

n. a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia [syn: vitamin B12, cobalamin, antipernicious anemia factor]

Cyanocobalamin is a synthetic form of vitamin . Vitamin is the "generic descriptor" name for any vitamers of vitamin . Because humans and animals can convert cyanocobalamin to any one of the active vitamin compounds, by definition this makes cyanocobalamin itself a form (or vitamer) of .