See Also: Ketones (Ketone Bodies)(health)
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Perceval(encyclopedia)
Perceval, Spencer(encyclopedia)
amino acid chloromethyl ketones(medicine)
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Ketones (Ketone Bodies) (health) and Perceval (sh)


Ketones (Ketone Bodies) (health)


Chemicals that the body makes when there is not enough insulin in the blood and it must break down fat for its energy. Ketone bodies can poison and even kill body cells. When the body does not have the help of insulin, the ketones build up in the blood and then "spill" over into the urine so that the body can get rid of them. The body can also rid itself of one type of ketone, called acetone, through the lungs. This gives the breath a fruity odor. Ketones that build up in the body for a long time lead to serious illness and coma.





Perceval (sh)




Hero of Arthurian legend.

His childlike innocence protected him from worldly temptation. In Chretien de Troyes's 12th-century Le Conte du Graal, Perceval visits the castle of the wounded Fisher King and sees the Grail, but he fails to ask about it and therefore fails to heal the Fisher King. He subsequently sets out in search of the Grail and grows spiritually. In later Grail legend he was displaced by Galahad as the hero of the Grail quest but continued to play an important role. His story was told in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 13th-century Parzifal, which provided the basis for Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal (1882).