lipidn.

1925 W. R. Bloor in Chem. Rev. 2 244 Three terms have been suggested for the group, namely, ‘Lipins’ by Gies and Rosenbloom, ‘Lipides’ by the International Congress of Applied Chemistry, and the old term ‘Lipoids’ by the author. The term lipins has been used in a different sense by Leathes, and was later adopted by McLean in his monograph as a name for a subgroup containing the cerebrosides and the phosphatides. The term lipoids is understood by many to exclude the fats, although used in the wider sense by many workers on the Continent. For these reasons, and for the sake of uniformity, the author recommends the use of the term Lipides as the general group name.

1927 M. Bodansky Introd. Physiol. Chem. iii. 49 The term ‘lipides’ or ‘lipids’..referring to the fats and fat-like substances.

1937 Nature 6 Nov. 787 ‘Lipides’ may be confused with ‘lipins’, and both these words together with ‘lipoids’ generally signify substances of a fat~like nature yielding on hydrolysis fatty acids or derivatives of fatty acids, and containing in their molecule either nitrogen or nitrogen and phosphorus... Some confusion may therefore arise since ‘lipids’ as used by the author signifies not only the above substances but also the simple fats and waxes and even the sterols.

1946 W. R. Fearon Introd. Biochem. (ed. 3) x. 172 The third great family of bio-organic compounds, namely, the lipides.

1954 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. xviii. 453 Lipids are the most concentrated source of energy to the organism, yielding per gram over twice as many calories as do carbohydrates and proteins.

1955 J. A. Lovern Chem. Lipids ii. 37 Lipids by definition are soluble in the ‘fat’ solvents, such as ether, alcohol and chloroform.

1958 G. A. Maw Aids to Org. Chem. for Med. Students (ed. 5) p. xxxiv Substances such as paraffin wax, petroleum jelly and mineral oils, although of a fatty or oily nature, are not classified as lipids since they do not occur in living material.

1961 Chem. Abstr. 55 27470 Chemistry of lipides.

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. x. 5/2 The steroids form a large class of lipids, which includes the hormones of the adrenal and sex glands, vitamin D and the bile acids.

1973 Sci. Amer. Aug. 89/1 Today there are 10 well-characterized human diseases that are known to be caused by the excessive accumulation of lipids in tissue cells.

1955 H. J. Deuel Lipids II. vi. 623 (heading) Lipid storage under abnormal conditions.

1960 Jrnl. Neurol., Neurosurg. & Psychiatry 23 211/2 The group of so-called lipid storage disorders..includes..Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, gargoylism, Niemann-Pick's disease, Gaucher's disease, and amaurotic family idiocy.

1973 Sci. Amer. Aug. 88/1 When the enzyme that catalyzes a particular lipid reaction is inactive or absent, excessive amounts of that lipid begin to accumulate in certain tissues. In human beings lipid-storage disorders often result in mental retardation and enlargement of the spleen and the liver. Most of the known lipid-storage disorders are fatal.

1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. vi. 151 Lipid-soluble substances are substances with a relatively high solubility in oils.