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glycerophosphates

glycerophosphates is the plural of glycerophosphate.

Meaning of glycerophosphate

Noun

glycerophosphate (plural glycerophosphates)

  1. Any salt or ester of glycerophosphoric acid; but especially the phospholipids.
    • But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.1963, Xavier Herbert, Distubing Element, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 178

Questions about glycerophosphates

What is glycerophosphates the plural of?
Glycerophosphates is the plural of glycerophosphate.

Words near glycerophosphates in the dictionary

  1. glyceronucleotide
  2. glyceronucleotides
  3. glycerophosphatase
  4. glycerophosphatases
  5. glycerophosphate
  6. glycerophosphates
  7. glycerophosphatide
  8. glycerophosphatides
  9. glycerophosphatidic
  10. glycerophosphocholine
  11. glycerophosphocholines

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