essential fatty acid

English

Noun

essential fatty acid (plural essential fatty acids)

1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) any fatty acid required for human metabolism that cannot be synthesized by the body and must be present in the diet; originally designated as vitamin F

Translations

any fatty acid required for human metabolism that cannot be synthesized

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 必需脂肪酸 (bit¹ seoi¹ zi¹ fong¹ syun¹)

  Mandarin: 必需脂肪酸 (bìxū zhīfángsuān)

• Japanese: 必須脂肪酸 (ひっすしぼうさん, hissu shibōsan), 不可欠脂肪酸 (ふかけつしぼうさん, fukaketsu shibōsan)
• Korean: 필수 지방산(必須脂肪酸) (pilsu jibangsan), 불가결 지방산(不可缺脂肪酸) (bulgagyeol jibangsan)
• Slovak: esenciálna mastná kyselina

See also

• omega-3 fatty acid
• omega-6 fatty acid