a. [f. Gr. χολή bile + -OID.] Resembling bile (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
So Choloidanic acid, a white acid, crystallizing in long hair-like prisms, formed in treating choloidic with nitric acid. Choloidic or Choloidinic acid, a product of the dehydration of cholic acid, and of the putrefaction of bile.
1848. Carpenter, Anim. Phys., 282. Two fatty acids, termed the choleic and the choloidic.
1880. J. W. Legg, Bile, 3. Demarcay succeeded in separating 3 acids, choleic [= taurocholic], choloidic, and cholic [= glycocholic].
