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lipidosome

lipidosome is the alternative form of liposome.

Meaning of liposome

Noun

liposome (plural liposomes)

  1. An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.
    • Albrecht applied the term "liposome" to small refractive droplets observed in freshly mounted sections of liver and other tissues.1930 September, Ben Dawes, “The Absorption of Fats and Lipoids in the Plaice (P. platessa L.)”, in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, volume 17, number 1, page 75

Forms of lipidosome

plurallipidosomes

Questions about lipidosome

What is lipidosome the alternative form of?
Lipidosome is the alternative form of liposome.

Words near lipidosome in the dictionary

  1. lipidophiles
  2. lipidophilic
  3. lipidoses
  4. lipidosis
  5. lipidosity
  6. lipidosome
  7. lipidosomes
  8. lipidostasis
  9. lipidous
  10. lipids
  11. lipiduria

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