lipoid
Americanadjective
noun
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a fatlike substance, such as wax
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biochem a former name for lipid
Etymology
Origin of lipoid
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Callahan was among doctors who have described the illness as lipoid pneumonia.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
The illnesses could include lipoid pneumonia and could result in severe lung injury and a very serious condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
Some patients are suffering from another condition known as lipoid pneumonia, doctors said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
Following this theory, he devised a solution which when applied to the dentine did not deaden the nerve as in the case of novocain but contracted the lipoid away from the sensitive nerve.
From Time Magazine Archive
Recent investigations by Osterhout and others indicate, however, that Overton's hypothetical lipoid membrane is not essential to a proper explanation of the migration into and out of the cell protoplasm of nutritive materials, etc.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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