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English
Etymology
From anti- + lipoid.
Noun
antilipoid (plural antilipoids)
- (biochemistry) A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.
1915, John Albert Kolmer, A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy, page 247:[…] 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.
1928, U.S. Public Health Service, Venereal Disease Information, page 49:Lipoids, which are autogenous in the circulation, when injected with hog serum, produce formation of antilipoids in the rabbit.
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