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Preferred term

Lipids  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Lipid

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; differentiate from FATS; /‌blood: consider also HYPERLIPIDEMIAS & specifics; dyslipidemia, especially in foreign literature, is probably HYPERLIPIDEMIAS or its specifics; DIETARY FATS is also available

Scope note

  • A generic term for fats and lipoids, the alcohol-ether-soluble constituents of protoplasm, which are insoluble in water. They comprise the fats, fatty oils, essential oils, waxes, phospholipids, glycolipids, sulfolipids, aminolipids, chromolipids (lipochromes), and fatty acids. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)

History note

  • /blood was BLOOD LIPIDS 1963-67; /metabolism was LIPID METABOLISM 1963-65

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