fat-soluble

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fat-soluble (comparative more fat-soluble, superlative most fat-soluble)

  1. Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents; soluble in fats, (medicine) and therefore tending to accumulate in the fat and adipose tissue of the body.
    Synonym: liposoluble
    fat-soluble vitamin
    • 2007, Bryan Rosner, Julie Byers, Michael Huckleberry, The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments, page 143:
      Lyme Disease toxins and most of the toxins produced by industrialized manufacturing are fat-soluble, so named because they accumulate in the body's fat stores.

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