antilipoid

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noun

A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.

Scrabble 13

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nounantilipoid (plural antilipoids)

plural antilipoids

  1. biochemistryA substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.

    Lipoids, which are autogenous in the circulation, when injected with hog serum, produce formation of antilipoids in the rabbit.

    1928, U.S. Public Health Service, Venereal Disease Information, page 49
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    […] its peculiar behavior toward the lipoids suggests strongly that it is a product of the toxic action of the causal parasite upon the lipoids of the body-cells and is in the nature of an antilipoid.

    1915, John Albert Kolmer, A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy, page 247

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