Usually means: Digestive detergents facilitating fat breakdown.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bile salts: Merriam-Webster
  2. bile salts: Vocabulary.com
  3. bile salts: Wiktionary
  4. Bile-salts, Bile salts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Bile salts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bile salts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bile salts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. bile salts: Medical dictionary

(Note: See bile_salt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bile salt)

noun:  The sodium salt of a bile acid; produced by the bile to neutralize the products leaving the stomach and to emulsify fatty material in it.
▸ Also see bile_salt

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