antilipoid

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ lipoid

Noun

antilipoid (plural antilipoids)

1. (biochemistry) A substance that destroys or degrades lipoids.
   • 1915, John Albert Kolmer, A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy, page 247:

     […] its peculiar behavior toward the lipoids suggests strongly that it is a product of the toxic action of the causal parasite upon the lipoids of the body-cells and is in the nature of an antilipoid.

   • 1928, U.S. Public Health Service, Venereal Disease Information, page 49:

     Lipoids, which are autogenous in the circulation, when injected with hog serum, produce formation of antilipoids in the rabbit.