glycerides's Usage Examples:

"These three glycerides have been usually considered the chief constituents of most oils and fats, but latterly there have been recognized as widely distributed trilinolin, the glyceride of linolic acid, and trilinolenin, the glyceride of linolenic acid.

Metabolism and nutrition disorders: Rare: increased triglycerides.

Cod-liver oil contains palmitin, stearin and other more complex glycerides; the "stearine" mentioned above, however, contains very little palmitin and stearin.

The natural oils and fats are mixtures of at least two or three different triglycerides, the most important of which are tristearin, tripalmitin, C3H5(0'C16H310)3 and triolein, C 3 H 5 (0C1811330)3.

Amongst these glycerides may be mentioned the following: Tristearin - C 3 H 5 (O C1 8 H350)3.

Owing to their possession of this common property, these natural fatty bodies and various artificial derivatives of glycerin, which behave in the same way when treated with alkalis, are known as glycerides.

palm oil, it exists in the free state, so that it can be separated by washing with boiling water, which dissolves the glycerin but not the fatty glycerides.

These three glycerides have been usually considered the chief constituents of most oils and fats, but latterly there have been recognized as widely distributed trilinolin, the glyceride of linolic acid, and trilinolenin, the glyceride of linolenic acid.

Friedel has found unchanged triglycerides in the fat which had been buried several thousand years ago in the tombs of Abydos.

A high carbohydrate intake, particularly from sugar or alcohol, as well as other factors, can raise triglycerides.

This is not only due to the fact that they are mixtures of several glycerides, but also that even pure glycerides, such as tristearin, exhibit two melting-points, a so-called "double melting-point," the triglycerides melting at a certain temperature, then solidifying at a higher temperature to melt again on further heating.

Other analogous glycerides are apparently contained in greater or smaller quantity in certain other oils.

Synonyms:

triglyceride, acylglycerol, animal oil, glyceryl ester, fat,

Antonyms:

angular, mesomorphic, thin, ectomorphic, leanness,