cholic acid

1. 1.

   an insoluble crystalline acid present in bile

   Broaderbile acid

Questions about cholic acid

What does cholic acid mean?

cholic acid means "an insoluble crystalline acid present in bile".

Is cholic acid a common word?

cholic acid 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.