antiophthalmic factor

What does antiophthalmic factor mean?

antiophthalmic factor means "any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes".

What is another word for antiophthalmic factor?

Close synonyms include vitamin A, axerophthol, A. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antiophthalmic factor a common word?

antiophthalmic factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antiophthalmic factor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.