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say it: LIP-uh-sohm
liposome is a noun meaning "an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector". It is pronounced /ˈlɪpəˌsoʊm/ — LIP-uh-sohm. It carries one recorded sense.
an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liposome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.