cod-liver oil
noun
cod-liv·er oil
: an oil obtained from the liver of the cod and closely related fishes and used as a source of vitamins A and D
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And don’t turn your nose up at a spoonful of good old-fashioned cod-liver oil, either.
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Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
Similar products followed, but most people used homemade recipes with affordable ingredients such as canned milk and Karo syrup, and supplemented babies’ diets with orange juice and cod-liver oil to prevent scurvy and rickets.
—Alice Callahan, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
The scientists gave patients scheduled for knee-replacement surgery either 1,000 milligrams of cod-liver oil or placebo.
—Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2018
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Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
Similar products followed, but most people used homemade recipes with affordable ingredients such as canned milk and Karo syrup, and supplemented babies’ diets with orange juice and cod-liver oil to prevent scurvy and rickets.
—Alice Callahan, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
The scientists gave patients scheduled for knee-replacement surgery either 1,000 milligrams of cod-liver oil or placebo.
—Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2018
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