Antilipoid

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.

    "[…] 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."

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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."

Etymology

From anti- + lipoid.

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