What does "liposome" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "liposome"?

Common synonyms include: delivery vehicle, encapsulation carrier, vesicle, vesicles.

noun

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Noun

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

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

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