Liposome

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.

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

  2. 2
    an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector wordnet

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

Etymology

From lipo- (“fat”) + -some (“body”). From Ancient Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat”) and Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “soma”).

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