Definition of Lyophilic

1. Adjective. (context: of a colloid) Having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated. ¹

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Definition of Lyophilic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Lyophilic

1. Characteristic of a material that readily forms a colloidal suspension. Molecules of the solvent form a shell around the particles, if the solvent is water then hydrophilic. (20 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyophilic

lyo-
lyocell
lyoenzyme
lyolysis
lyonia
lyonias
lyoniresinol
lyonium
lyoniums
lyonization
lyonnaise
lyonsite
lyophil
lyophile
lyophiled
lyophilic (current term)
lyophilic colloid
lyophilisate
lyophilisation
lyophilisations
lyophilise
lyophilised
lyophilises
lyophilising
lyophilization
lyophilizations
lyophilize
lyophilized
lyophilizer
lyophilizers

Literary usage of Lyophilic

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

1. Soaps and Proteins: Their Colloid Chemistry in Theory and Practice by Martin Fischer, George D. McLaughlin, Marian Osgood Hooker (1921)
"We wish first to comment upon their value for o closer definition of the terms hydrophilic or lyophilic colloid.1 In spite of the fact that we now recognize ..."

2. A Handbook of Colloid-chemistry: The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald, Wolfgang Ostwald, Emil Hatschek (1919)
"t us anticipate a particularly important generalization which follows from characterizing the "lyophilic" colloids as systems having the composition Liquid ..."

3. Œdema and Nephritis: A Critical, Experimental and Clinical Study of the by Martin Fischer (1921)
"For this reason the former are also known as lyophilic colloids, or, when water is the solvent, hydrophilic colloids; the latter as lyophobic or hydrophobic ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"Typical lyophilic colloid systems may Z>e made of pure soaps in the practical ... We feel that our future definitions of lyophilic colloid systems and the ..."

5. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"... the latter designate the disperse phase to be a liquid and the dispersion means also a liquid (lyophilic colloids'). As an example of the former, ..."

6. An Introduction to Theoretical and Applied Colloid Chemistry, "the World of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1922)
"But when flour is defined as a mixture of three hydrogels of which two (protein and starch, are lyophilic, something more is given than new words. ..."

7. Fats and Fatty Degeneration: A Physico-chemical Study of Emulsions and the by Martin Fischer, Marian Osgood Hooker (1917)
"The fact that simple dilution will serve to break an emulsion is best illustrated in those cases in which the hydrophilic (lyophilic) colloid is readily ..."

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