Chemicals and Drugs

Lipids

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)

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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)

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  • Lipid

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27 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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Indexing Annotation

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

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History Note

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

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  1. D10w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Lipids. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008055. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008055
  2. Lipids. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid
  3. Lipids. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11367