secosteroid (English, noun)
expansion: secosteroid (plural secosteroids)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the subclass of many terpenoid compounds of the tetracyclic steroid class that are structural relatives bearing a cleavage of one of the four rings of that parent class. The prototypical secosteroid is cholecalciferol, vitamin D3.
Forms:
form: secosteroids
tags: plural