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Vitamin
Glossary "O"
- occipital bone-
a bone in the lower back part of the skull between
the parietal and temporal bones.
- oxidants- substances
that cause oxidation.
- oxidation- a type
of chemical reaction in which an electron is
attracted away from the oxidized entity. Oxygen is
the most familiar oxidizer.
- oxidized
cholesterol- see oxysterol.
- oxygenation- to
supply or combine with oxygen.
- oxysterol- when
cholesterol combines with oxygen and becomes
oxidized, is then known as oxysterol.
- ozone-an excited,
highly oxidized form of oxygen; its formula is O3.
It attacks a wide variety of organic molecules,
particularly lipids, often producing free radicals
in the process.
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