What does "retinol" mean?

A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development.

What is a synonym for "retinol"?

Common synonyms include: axerophthol, vitamin a, vitamin a1, vitamin a1.

Pronounced //ˈrɛ.tən̩ɑl//.

//ˈrɛ.tən̩ɑl// noun

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Noun

1
A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development. countable, uncountable
2
an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene wordnet

From retina + -ol.

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