Dietary Sterol

Definition 1

Any substance found in the diet, comprising a cholestane skeleton with a hydroxyl group at the position C-3. They occur naturally in plants, animals and fungi. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 2

A class of dietary steroids having a hydrocarbon side-chain of 8-10 carbons at the 17-beta position and a hydroxyl group (-OH) at the 3-beta position. (NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

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