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Definition of Lipolytic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Lipolytic
1. Relating to or causing lipolysis. Synonym: lipoclastic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lipolytic
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 ..."