cardiolipin

car·di·o·lip·in

[kahr-dee-oh-lip-in]
noun Biochemistry.
a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.

Origin:
1942; cardio- + lip(id) + -in2

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