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Definition: Lipase |
LipaseNoun1. An enzyme secreted in the digestive tract that catalyzes the breakdown of fats into individual fatty acids that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Pancreatic enzyme which breaks down fatty substances. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An enzyme of the hydrolase class that catalyzes the reaction of triacylglycerol and water to yield diacylglycerol and a fatty acid anion. It is produced by glands on the tongue and by the pancreas and initiates the digestion of dietary fats. (From Dorland, 27th ed) EC 3.1.1.3. (references) |
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Crosswords: Lipase |
| English words defined with "lipase": gastric juice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lipase": Apolipoproteins C ♦ Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease ♦ Hyperlipoproteinemia Type V ♦ Lipid Mobilization, Lipoprotein Lipase, Lipoprotein Lipase Deficiency, Familial ♦ Orlistat ♦ Pancrelipase ♦ Wolman Disease. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Amylase and lipase are digestive enzymes formed in the pancreas. (references) | |
During acute attacks, the blood contains at least three times more amylase and lipase than usual. (references) | ||
Patients who fail to respond to drug therapy may have lipoprotein lipase deficiency or apolipoprotein C-II deficiency and require expert evaluation. (references) | ||
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| "Lipase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Lipase" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lipase": Lipoprotein Lipase. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lipase": lipase-colipase. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lipase | 143 |
lipase inhibitor | 9 |
association hepatic lipase study | 6 |
lipoprotein lipase | 6 |
amylase lipase | 5 |
elevated lipase | 5 |
enzyme lipase | 4 |
serum lipase | 4 |
lipase structure | 3 |
level lipase | 3 |
high lipase | 3 |
assay lipase | 2 |
amylase lipase protease | 2 |
blood lipase test | 2 |
euro lipase order | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "lipase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lipase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lipase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lipaasit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lipase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lipase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιπάση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lipasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipaselay lipase. (various references) lipasa. (various references) lipase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lipase": lipases. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lipase": phospholipase. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lipase": phospholipases. (additional references) | |
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"Lipase" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lapose, Lepasset, liase, liaze, liease, ligases, Likasi, Linpack, lipas, Lipos, lippage, Lippuner, Lipyatt, lpase, Lupas, lyase, lypse, Olapade. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: espial. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aisle, lapis, lapse, leaps, pails, paise, pales, peals, pilea, piles, pleas, plies, salep, sepal, sepia, slipe, spail, spale, speil, spiel, spile. | |
-2 letters: ails, ales, alps, apes, apse, ilea, isle, laps, lase, leap, leas, leis, lies, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, pail, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, pial, pias, pies, pile, plea, plie, sail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: alipeds, alpines, aplites, applies, elapids, espials, impales, lapides, lapises, lipases, paisley, paliest, palsied, palsies, pineals, plaices, platies, pleiads, spaniel, special, splenia, talipes. | |
+2 letters: allspice, appliers, biplanes, calipees, calipers, capelins, displace, earlship, elapsing, epiblast, episomal, espalier, especial, explains, fleapits, haplites, harelips, helipads, impalers, impanels, impearls, impleads, jalopies, lapsible, lempiras, maniples, misplace, misplead, opalines, painless, paisleys, palewise, palisade, palliest, palmiest, panelist, panicles, pantiles, parslied, passible, pastille, pelicans, pelorias, penalise, perillas, piebalds, pilaster, pillages, pinwales, plainest, plaister, plaiters, plashier, platiest, plausive, pleasing, pleiades, polarise, pralines, prevails, replicas, reprisal, sandpile, sepaline, sepaloid, septical, skiplane, slipcase, slippage, slipware, soaplike, spadille, spaniels, sparlike, specials, spiculae, spillage, spinulae, spiracle, spiraled, spirulae, splenial, spoilage, spoliate, stapelia, talipeds, tieclasp, wasplike. | |
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