phosphatide
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of phosphatide
1884; phosphate + -ide ( def. )
Example Sentences
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From Washington Post
One of them, the phosphatide fraction, makes cells grow wildly and rapidly, giving the effect of cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three good means of diagnosis for early tuberculosis exist: X-rays; tuberculin tests; precipitation of a suspect's blood serum by fatty phosphatide fractions of the tuberculosis germ.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Page 192 “But phosphatides occur” - had “phosphatide soccur”.
From Project Gutenberg
This phosphatide is by far the best-known lipoid.
From Project Gutenberg
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