English Explanatory Dictionary

docosanoid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various signalling molecules made by oxygenation of twenty-two-carbon essential fatty acids, especially docosahexaenoic acid, including some resolvins and the docosatrienes.

Word forms

docosanoid docosanoids

Etymology

From docos- (“22”) + -ane + -oid.

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