Biological process

medium chain fatty acid biosynthesis, medium chain fatty acid biosynthetic process, medium-chain fatty acid anabolism, medium-chain fatty acid biosynthesis, medium-chain fatty acid formation, medium-chain fatty acid synthesis

The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a medium-chain fatty acid. A medium-chain fatty acid has an aliphatic tail containing 6 to 12 carbons.

While there is not universal consensus on the lengths of short-, medium-, long- and very-long-chain fatty acids, the GO uses the definitions in ChEBI (see CHEBI:26666, CHEBI:59554, CHEBI:15904 and CHEBI:27283).