lipid
lipid
Definition
lipid (lip′id)
noun
any of a group of organic compounds consisting of the fats and other substances of similar properties: they are insoluble in water, soluble in fat solvents and alcohol, and greasy to the touch, and are important constituents of living cells
Etymology: lip(o)- + -id
lipid
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- lower: Fasting has been used by patients for weight management, to rest the digestive tract and for lowering lipids.
- fast: Current guidelines are that fasting total lipids be below 5.2.
- raise: When the experts did the experiments the Atkins Diet was found not to be associated with raised lipids.
- protect: Taurine in combination with retinol protects lipids twice as much as retinol alone.
Preposition: in
- membrane: Antioxidants inhibit the oxidation of lipids in cell membranes, leading to impairment of cell function.
Adjective modifier
- dietary: Current work includes: assessing the contribution of dietary lipids in sea urchin gonads from sub-tidal and intertidal areas of Loch Creran.
- neutral: Some areas showed accumulation of neutral lipid in fibers that stained positively for succinate dehydrogenase.
- natural: Bubble baths and soaps should be avoided as they remove the natural lipids from the surface of the skin and can be an irritant.
Modifies a noun
- peroxidation: Effects of vitamin E in lipid peroxidation in healthy persons.
- bilayer: The basic structure of the plasma membrane is a lipid bilayer no stronger than a soap bubble.
- bilayers: Membrane proteins are compact, highly versatile proteins that work inserted in the lipid bilayers that separate the cell from its surroundings.
- raft: Floating the raft hypothesis: the roles of lipid rafts in B cell antigen receptor function.
- metabolism: Main current research is on the transcriptional control of lipid metabolism in farmed fish species, funded by the EU.
- peroxide: The results showed that the group practicing the TM technique had 15 % lower serum lipid peroxide levels compared to the controls.
Noun used with modifier
- serum: There was no significant effect on serum lipids, fasting glucose or insulin levels, or blood pressure.
- plasma: Diagnosis of the cause of raised plasma lipid levels will enable appropriate decisions to be taken with regard to management.
- membrane: A membrane lipid or protein is tagged with a fluorescent dye.
- blood: The most popular test has been for blood lipids in association with cardiac risk the average age for the test was 51.
- raft: Future studies will also help to clarify the molecular mechanisms involved in the chaperone activity of raft lipids.
- purity: The company's extensive range of health care ingredients includes essential fatty acids, high purity lipids, drug delivery systems and protein derivatives.
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