English
lipointoxicate
From lipo- + intoxicate.
Formed from lipo- + intoxicate
Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ‘to stick’
Proto-Hellenic *lípos ‘fat’
Ancient Greek λῐ́πος ‘animal fat’
English lipo-
Middle English intoxicat ‘smeared, anointed or filled with poison’
Middle English intoxicaten
English intoxicate
Today it means
verb To disturb the biochemistry of a cell by the accumulation of saturated phospholipids.
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Etymograph / lipointoxicate