National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Dietary Sterol

Synonyms

Dietary Sterol

Definitions

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.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C68342

ALT_DEFINITION

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.

code

C68342

Contributing_Source

CRCH

DEFINITION

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.

FULL_SYN

Dietary Sterol

label

Dietary Sterol

Legacy Concept Name

Dietary_Sterol

Preferred_Name

Dietary Sterol

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C68342

Semantic_Type

Organic Chemical

UMLS_CUI

C2348285

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C68341

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