choline

See also: Choline

English

choline formula

Alternative forms

• cholin (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-

Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́

Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)der.

English choline

Coined from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

The chemical compound was first isolated by Adolph Strecker from pig and ox bile (hence the name) in 1862. It was also named neurine when chemically synthesized by Oscar Liebreich in 1865, until 1898 when shown to be identical to choline.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊliːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

choline (usually uncountable, plural cholines)

1. (organic chemistry) A hydroxy quaternary ammonium compound with formula (CH₃)₃N⁺CH₂CH₂OHX⁻. It is an essential nutrient for cardiovascular and brain health and for cell membrane formation.

Synonyms

• (ammonium compound): neurine, vitamin J, sincaline (obsolete)

Derived terms

• acetylcholine
• arsenocholine
• benzoylcholine
• bethanechol
• butyrylcholine
• carbamoylcholine
• carbamylcholine
• cholinergic
• cholinester
• cholinesterase
• cholinolytic
• cholinomimetic
• deoxycholine
• ecothiopate
• ferrocholinate
• hemicholine
• methacholine
• monocholine
• -nicline
• phosphatidylcholine
• phosphocholine
• phosphorylcholine
• succinylcholine
• thiocholine
• tricholine

Translations

organic chemistry: a compound

• Catalan: colina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膽鹼 / 胆碱 (daam² gaan²)

  Mandarin: 膽鹼 / 胆碱 (zh) (dǎnjiǎn)

• Czech: cholin m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: choline (nl) f
• Finnish: koliini (fi)
• French: choline (fr) f
• German: Cholin (de)
• Greek: χολίνη (el) f (cholíni)
• Hungarian: kolin (hu)
• Italian: colina (it)
• Japanese: コリン (ja) (korin)
• Kazakh: холин (xolıyn)
• Korean: 콜린 (kollin)
• Polish: cholina f
• Portuguese: colina (pt) f
• Romanian: colină (ro) f
• Russian: холи́н (ru) m (xolín)
• Spanish: colina (es) f
• Swedish: kolin (sv) n
• Turkish: kolin

Anagrams

• Helicon, Nichole, helicon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lin/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophone: colline

Noun

choline f (plural cholines)

1. (biochemistry) choline

Further reading

• “choline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012