Definition of Lipolytic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to lipolysis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lipolytic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Lipolytic

1. Relating to or causing lipolysis. Synonym: lipoclastic. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lipolytic

lipoid granulomatosis
lipoid nephrosis
lipoid proteinosis
lipoid theory of narcosis
lipoidaemia
lipoidal
lipoidemia
lipoidosis
lipoidosis corneae
lipoidosis cutis et mucosae
lipoids
lipolipoidosis
lipolitic
lipolyses
lipolysis
lipolytic (current term)
lipolyze
lipoma
lipoma annulare colli
lipoma arborescens
lipoma capsulare
lipoma cavernosum
lipoma fibrosum
lipoma myxomatodes
lipoma ossificans
lipoma petrificans
lipoma sarcomatodes
lipomas
lipomata
lipomatoid

Literary usage of Lipolytic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"In the previous articles it has been shown that broth cultures of various acid-fast bacteria exhibit lipolytic activity; that this lipolytic activity is ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"They further showed that sterile unheated emulsions of B. tuberculosis, while not actively lipolytic, possess enzymes capable of slowly hydrolyzing esters. ..."

3. Intracellular Enzymes: A Course of Lectures Given in the Physiological by Horace Middleton Vernon (1908)
"Vegetable lipolytic enzymes, and their relation to acids and alkalis. ... The existence of lipolytic enzymes in animal tissues other than the pancreas was ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"... the pancreatic juice, the enteric juice, in many of the higher plants, and also in numerous organized ferments. 4. The lipolytic Ferments ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"Studies were made of the lipolytic activity of the kidney of the rabbit, dog, sheep, pig and cow. The source of enzyme was a chloroform- water extract of ..."

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