liposome

English

Etymology

lipo- (“fat”) +‎ -some (“body”). From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”) and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “soma”)

Noun

liposome (plural liposomes)

1. (biochemistry) An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.
   • 1930 September, Ben Dawes, “The Absorption of Fats and Lipoids in the Plaice (P. platessa L.)”, in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, volume 17, number 1, page 75:

     Albrecht applied the term "liposome" to small refractive droplets observed in freshly mounted sections of liver and other tissues.

Derived terms

• coliposome
• immunoliposome
• intraliposome
• liposomal
• liposomalization
• liposomic
• nanoliposome
• peptidoliposome
• phospholiposome
• proliposome
• proteoliposome

 

Coordinate terms

• azotosome

Translations

an aqueous compartment

• Japanese: リポソーム (riposōmu)
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Anagrams

• semiloop