fat-soluble

English

Adjective

fat-soluble (comparative more fat-soluble, superlative most fat-soluble)

1. Soluble in lipids, and in organic solvents.

   Synonym: liposoluble

   fat-soluble vitamin

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) that tends to accumulate in the adipose tissue of the body
   • 2007, Bryan Rosner, Julie Byers, Michael Huckleberry, The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments, page 143:

     Lyme Disease toxins and most of the toxins produced by industrialized manufacturing are fat-soluble, so named because they accumulate in the body's fat stores.

Translations

dissolving easily in fat

• Danish: fedtopløselig
• Finnish: rasvaliukoinen (fi)
• Greek: λιποδιαλυτός (el) (lipodialytós)
• Hungarian: zsírban oldódó
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fettløselig

• Polish: rozpuszczalny w tłuszczach
• Swedish: fettlöslig (sv)

See also

• water-soluble

Further reading

• “fat-soluble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “fat-soluble”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.