The Collaborative International Dictionary
vitamin C \vitamin C\ n. a vitamin that prevents scurvy. Also called ascorbic acid.
Syn: ascorbic acid.
Wiktionary
n. The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid, a water-soluble nutrient essential for life, synthesized by most animals and plants but not humans, although used in our bodies for many purposes. It is plentiful in citrous fruits and many vegetables, and a deficiency causes scurvy.
WordNet
n. a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: ascorbic acid]
Wikipedia
Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid, or simply ascorbate (the anion of ascorbic acid), is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. Vitamin C describes several vitamers that have vitamin C activity in animals, including ascorbic acid and its salts, and some oxidized forms of the molecule like dehydroascorbic acid. Ascorbate and ascorbic acid are both naturally present in the body when either of these is introduced into cells, since the forms interconvert according to pH.
Vitamin C is a cofactor in at least eight enzymatic reactions, including several collagen synthesis reactions that, when dysfunctional, cause the most severe symptoms of scurvy. In animals, these reactions are especially important in wound-healing and in preventing bleeding from capillaries. Ascorbate also acts as an antioxidant, protecting against oxidative stress.
Ascorbate (the anion of ascorbic acid) is required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and plants. It is made internally by almost all organisms; the main exceptions are most bats, all guinea pigs, capybaras, and the Haplorrhini (one of the two major primate suborders, consisting of tarsiers, monkeys, and humans and other apes). Ascorbate is also not synthesized by many species of birds and fish. All species that do not synthesize ascorbate require it in the diet. Deficiency in this vitamin causes the disease scurvy in humans.
Ascorbic acid is also widely used as a food additive, to prevent oxidation.
Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick (born July 20, 1972), better known by her stage name Vitamin C, is an American pop music singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Her singles include " Graduation (Friends Forever)", " As Long As You're Loving Me", " The Itch", and her most successful hit the Top 20 Gold certified " Smile". Vitamin C is also the former lead singer of the alternative rock band Eve's Plum. As an actress, she has appeared in the films Hairspray (1988), Dracula 2000 (2000), Da Hip Hop Witch (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), and Get Over It (2001).
She was ranked No. 76 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. Mattel released a Vitamin C doll in 2000. She was a video game character in the game EA Sports Triple Play by EA Sports. Vitamin C has her own Tommy Hilfiger lipstick color developed after her signature yellow and orange hair.
On March 21, 2012, Vitamin C was appointed as Vice President of Music at Nickelodeon.
Vitamin C is an essential nutrient, usually ingested as ascorbic acid. The oxidized form, dehydroascorbic acid, can also be absorbed from the diet, and has similar antiscorbutic effects.
Vitamin C may also refer to:
- Vitamin C megadosage, high doses used in an attempt to obtain specific therapeutic effects
- Vitamin C deficiency or scurvy
- Vitamin C and the common cold
- Vitamin C and the Common Cold (book) by Linus Pauling
- Caffeine, as a slang term
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Vitamin C (singer), Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick, an American pop music singer, dancer and actress
- Vitamin C (album), her self-titled debut album
- "Vitamin C" (song), a song by the band Can
Vitamin C is the self-titled debut studio album by pop singer Vitamin C, released in 1999. The album was a runaway success. Initially failing to chart, it later climbed the Billboard 200 to number 29 and was certified as Gold and later certified Platinum by the RIAA. The Japanese edition featured the song "The Only One" as a bonus track.
The album spawned two hits, the Gold-selling Top 20 hit "Smile" and the Top 40 hit "Graduation (Friends Forever)". The album features guest appearances by Lady Saw, Count Bass D, and Waymon Boone. On the track "Fear of Flying" Vitamin C samples The Clash's " The Magnificent Seven".
"Vitamin C" is a song by the krautrock band Can on their 1972 album Ege Bamyasi. It is known for its thick bass line, bouncy percussion and catchy chorus, which has Damo Suzuki repeating the line "Hey you! You're losing your Vitamin C". Considering its short length and relatively standard song structure, it is one of the band's more conventional songs.
It was featured in Samuel Fuller's German television Tatort production Kressin & die tote Taube auf der Beethovenstraße ( Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street) in 1973, and then also released as a single with the B-side "I'm So Green".
In 1997, an 8-minute version of the song, remixed by British musical outfit U.N.K.L.E., was featured on Can's double remix album Sacrilege.
Vitamin C was featured in the opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2014 film Inherent Vice.
Song was featured as the theme song for Jaden Smith in the new Netflix series The Get Down (2016).
Usage examples of "vitamin c".
Also take 2 gram of vitamin C a day plus cod liver oil capsules as well as four garlic capsules at night before going to bed.
Today I called for the gravy dinner plus two vedge and a carafe of red which for me, rotting veteran of Pizza Pit and Burger Shack, of Doner Den and Furter Hut, is the equivalent of a handful of brown rice and a glass of effervescent Vitamin C.
I took aspirin, decongestants and a thousand milligrams of vitamin C.
A dietary lack of vitamin C and a dozen other nutrients I can think of weakened him until he could no longer function.
Wonderfully rilling, filathix, if a bit loosening of the bowels-and for some reason loaded with chemical vitamin C.
The nice thing about scurvy is that vitamin C can reverse it at any point, but we're not going to allow any backsliding here.
It also contains vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin F, vitamin G, vitamin I, vitamin J, vitamin K, vitamin L, vitamin M, vitamin N, vitamin O, vitamin P, vitamin Q, vitamin R, vitamin T, vitamin U, vitamin V, vitamin W, vitamin X, vitamin Y, and, believe it or not, vitamin Z!
One day when I showed up at his apartment I found him seated with several bottles of vitamins, including an enormous plastic container of vitamin C.