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Definition: Triglyceride |
TriglycerideNoun1. Glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Triglyceride \Tri*glyc"er*ide\, noun. [Prefix tri- glyceride.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | A triester of glycerol with one, two, or three acids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A lipid carried through the blood stream to tissues. Most of the body's fat tissue is in the form of triglycerides, stored for use as energy. Triglycerides are obtained primarily from fat in foods. (references) |
Medicine | A type of blood fat. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Triglyceride |
| English words defined with "triglyceride": gemfibrozil, glycerol tripalmitate, glycerol tristearate ♦ Lopid ♦ tributyrin, tripalmitin, tristearin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "triglyceride": Colestipol ♦ Hyperlipoproteinemia Type III, Hyperlipoproteinemia Type IV ♦ Lipid Mobilization, Lipoprotein Lipase Deficiency, Familial ♦ Triacetin. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They may have either increased triglyceride synthesis or defects in removal. (references) | |
Triglyceride levels correlate in many prospective studies with coronary events. (references) | ||
Lowering of triglyceride by diet or drugs may normalize these clotting factors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Austria | Product groups which the highest sales shares are: antiulcerants; erythropietin products; antidepressants; cholesterol and triglyceride reduction preparations; anticoagulants, injectable; ACE-inhibitors, combinations; cephalosporins; ACE Inhibitors, plain; calcium antagonists, plain. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Triglyceride" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Triglyceride" is used about 38 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) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "triglyceride": triglyceride-carrying, triglyceride-enriched, triglyceride-rich. | |
Ending with "triglyceride": vldl-triglyceride. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "triglyceride"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "油三酸酯 (trig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | triglycerid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | triglyceride. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | triglyseridi (triacylglycerol, triglycerides), triasyyliglyseroli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | triglycéride (triglycerides). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Triglyceride, Triglycerid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριγλυκερίδιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | trigliceride. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iglyceridetray triglicérido. (various references) triglicérido (triacylglycerol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "triglyceride": triglycerides. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "triglyceride" (pronounced trīgli"serī'd) |
| 3 | -er ī' d | monosaccharide, polysaccharide, Telluride. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-i-l-r-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: deciliter, glyceride, retiredly. | |
-4 letters: celerity, derelict, dieretic, directer, directly, elicited, gelidity, greedily, legerity, redirect, regicide. | |
-5 letters: decrier, dictier, dirtier, dirtily, eidetic, erectly, girdler, ledgier, recited, reciter, reedily, reticle, retiled, retired, retried, ridgier, rigidly, tierced, tiercel, tireder, tiredly, yielder. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-i-l-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: triglycerides. | |
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