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BILE SALT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids
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Hypernyms ("bile salt" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))