Relating to a type of bile acid found in human bile that is derived from cholesterol metabolism.
From Greek 'anthropos' (human) + 'deoxy' (lacking oxygen) + 'cholic' (relating to bile). The term combines anatomical and chemical nomenclature to describe a compound specific to human physiology.
This word is basically a scientific name-tag for a chemical your body makes—it shows how modern medicine borrows from multiple languages to create ultra-specific names for things it discovers.
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