Definitions for "Folic acid"
Keywords:  folate, leafy, vitamin, neural, anemia
A vitamin found in poultry and liver, navy beans, dark-green leafy vegetables, nuts, fresh oranges and fortified cereals and whole-wheat products which helps in the making of red blood cells and is essential in normal protein metabolism.
A vitamin of the B complex, found in leafy green vegetables, liver, and kidney, and deficiency of which causes pernicious anaemia. Also called Folacin or Pterroylglutamic Acid.
Used in the prevention of cervical cancer. Consider with anemia, chronic fatigue, digestive inflammation, increased and decreased serum uric acid, increased MCV/MCH, nerve degeneration or inflammation. Oral contraceptives interfere with folate metabolism causing lowered folic acid levels in the blood.
Important in the cellular reproduction and formation of choline