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phosphatide

[fos-fuh-tahyd, -tid]

noun

Biochemistry.
  1. phospholipid.



phosphatide

/ ˈfɒsfəˌtaɪd /

noun

  1. another name for phospholipid

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The handy diagram below, created by Twitter user @Phosphatide, makes it easy to understand the Cube Rule and issue decrees on other dishes.

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One of them, the phosphatide fraction, makes cells grow wildly and rapidly, giving the effect of cancer.

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.*

Page 192 “But phosphatides occur” - had “phosphatide soccur”.

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This phosphatide is by far the best-known lipoid.

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