Cholesterin

(kol-es'-ter-in) (joXr^, bile; oriap, fat], C 26 H 44 or C 25 H 42 0. A monatomic alcohol, a constituent of bile, gall-stones, nervous tissue, egg-yolk, and blood, and some- times found in foci of fatty degeneration. It is a glistening, white, crystalline substance, soapy to the touch, crystallizing in fine needles and rhombic plates. It is insoluble in water, soluble in hot alcohol, ether, or chloroform. It is held in solution in the bile by the bile-salts; it is levorotatory. The power of immunizing against and neutralizing snake-venom is attributed to it. C.,. Tests for. See Liebermann-Burchard, Obermueller, Sal- kowski, Schiff, Schultze.

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