fatty-acids Medical Dictionary, Medical Abbreviations,Medical Terms

fatty-acids

Basic units of the lipids (greases). In the body, the fatty-acids form a reserve of energy usable when those of sugar (glycogen) are exhausted. They enter the composition of the membrane of the cells and are essential to the synthesis of certain hormones. The fatty-acids are classified in several families: saturated fatty-acids, polyinsaturés fatty-acids mono-unsaturates, fatty-acids, essential fatty-acids, etc