Sentence examples for calciferol from inspiring English sources

There are two major forms of vitamin D: vitamin D2, found in plants and better known as ergocalciferol (or calciferol), and vitamin D3, found in animal tissues and often referred to as cholecalciferol.

Certain sterols are transformed to calciferols (D vitamins) by ultraviolet light; this process occurs naturally in the skin and is used commercially in the manufacture of vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) from ergosterol and of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) from synthetic 7-dehydrocholesterol.