phthiocol


phthi·o·col

noun \ˈthī-ə-ˌkl, -ˌkōl\

Definition of PHTHIOCOL

: a yellow crystalline quinone C11H8O3 with vitamin K activity that is isolated from the human tubercle bacillus and also made synthetically

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