Diosgenin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Diosgenin is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
Example Sentences
Obtaining adequate quantities of hormonal substances for research was impossible, however, until the early 1940s, when Russell E. Marker (1902–95) found that he could extract diosgenin from a wild yam growing in Mexico […]
Word Forms
- diosgenins
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disogenin, yamogenin, gitogenin, yonogenin, hecogenin, genistin.
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