Definition of "liposome"

liposome

noun
plural liposomes
1. (biochemistry) An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular membrane, typically of phospholipid; a lipid vesicle.
  Quotations
  Albrecht applied the term "liposome" to small refractive droplets observed in freshly mounted sections of liver and other tissues.
  1930 September, Ben Dawes, “The Absorption of Fats and Lipoids in the Plaice (P. platessa L.)”, in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, volume 17, number 1, page 75