lipasen.

1897 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 72 ii. 150 The active enzyme, for which the name lipase is suggested, is also capable of acting..on the natural oils and fats.

1897 Year-bk. Pharm. 77 The author [E. Gerard] attributes the hydrolysing action to the presence of Hanriot's lipase or an analogous ferment.

1901 Science 17 May 767 A large number of them [sc. enzymes], such as diastase, lipase, trypsin, etc., etc., have been found in both the vegetable and the animal organism.

1906 Practitioner Nov. 584 The real work of fat digestion being, of course, close [? read done] by the lipase of the pancreas.

1946 Nature 14 Sept. 375/1 It thus appears that there are at least two distinctly different enzymes (or enzyme systems) present in these glycerol extracts: (1) a lipase, hydrolysing esters of glycerol..; and (2) an esterase, hydrolysing esters of lower alcohols than glycerol.

1955 Sci. Amer. Oct. 70/2 Some enzymes (e.g., amylase and lipase) work in the digestive system, breaking up the crude food material into simpler parts which can be transported by the bloodstream.

1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry xvi. 342 The globule of stored triglyceride within an adipose tissue cell is not attacked by lipoprotein lipase... Breakdown of the stored material depends on the action of other lipases within the cell.