Fatty Acids

"Fatty Acids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Organic, monobasic acids derived from hydrocarbons by the equivalent of oxidation of a methyl group to an alcohol, aldehyde, and then acid. Fatty acids are saturated and unsaturated (FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED). (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fatty Acids" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fatty Acids" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 124 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2011
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.