Usually means: Organic compounds, structurally related to cholesterol.
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  1. sterol: Merriam-Webster
  2. sterol: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sterol: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sterol: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sterol: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sterol, sterol: Wordnik
  7. sterol: Wiktionary
  8. sterol: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sterol: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sterol: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sterol: Dictionary.com
  12. Sterol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sterol: Rhymezone
  14. sterol: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sterol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sterol: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterol: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterol: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. sterol: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sterol)

▸ noun:  (biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any steroid that contains a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring.

Similar:
steroid alcohol, hydroxysterol, hydroxysteroid, ketosteroid, steroid, homosteroid, oxysteroid, ketosterol, phytosteroid, stanol, more...

Opposite:
sterol-free, non-sterol, asterol

Types:
cholesterol, ergosterol, sitosterol, stigmasterol, lanosterol, more...

Phrases:
plant sterol, sterol o-acyltransferase, sterol o acyltransferase, sterol esterase, Sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1, more...

Adjectives:
major, free, principal, total, main, important, predominant, only, common, abundant, neutral

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Similar:
steroid alcohol, hydroxysterol, hydroxysteroid, ketosteroid, steroid, homosteroid, oxysteroid, ketosterol, phytosteroid, stanol, more...

Opposite:
sterol-free, non-sterol, asterol

Types:
cholesterol, ergosterol, sitosterol, stigmasterol, lanosterol, more...

Phrases:
plant sterol, sterol o-acyltransferase, sterol o acyltransferase, sterol esterase, Sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1, Sterol regulatory element-binding protein, more...

Adjectives:
major, free, principal, total, main, important, predominant, only, common, abundant, neutral



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