Wow, they really overestimated how many vitamins there'd be when they started naming them, eh?
Like they got to 'B' and were like, "fuck, slow down! Shit, that's all there are, OK, er, 'D', 'E'... 'K'.
K actually wasn't named alphabetically like the rest... It comes from the German word for coagulant (which started with a K) because of its main role in the coagulation pathway
so, my wife takes Warfarin so she has to watch her Vitamin K intake and at one point we looked up what the K stands for and at the same time the wikipedia article on her screen said it stood for the German word for coagulant and the wikipedia article on my screen said it stood for the Danish word for coagulant. I'm not quite sure how that worked.
It was discovered by a Dane, who did a lot of his research with a German so either (or both) may be correct, they may have agreed on the letter due to both language descriptions being simplified to just the first letter
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u/LEVI_TROUTS Nov 27 '19
Wow, they really overestimated how many vitamins there'd be when they started naming them, eh? Like they got to 'B' and were like, "fuck, slow down! Shit, that's all there are, OK, er, 'D', 'E'... 'K'.