Although the term lipid is sometimes used as a synonym for fats, fats are a subgroup of lipids called triglycerides.

In neuronal exocytosis, the term priming has been used to include all of the molecular rearrangements and ATP-dependent protein and lipid modifications that take place after initial docking of a synaptic vesicle but before exocytosis, such that the influx of calcium ions is all that is needed to trigger nearly instantaneous neurotransmitter release.

Increased Muscle mass, decrease of adipose tissue, faster hair and nail growth, strengthened immune system, increased circulatory system, and improved blood lipid levels, but long term mortality benefit has not yet been demonstrated.

Their name comes from the word stem lipo -, which is a variation on " lipid " or " fat ", and from the term pigment, used because the substances take on a greenish-yellow color when viewed under an ultraviolet light microscope.

They reserve the term Eurasiatic to designate the narrower subgrouping, which comprises the rest of the macrofamily.

Sergei Starostin's school has now re-included Afroasiatic in a broadly defined Nostratic, while reserving the term Eurasiatic to designate the narrower subgrouping which comprises the rest of the macrofamily.

In Brazil, the term for secondary school is Ensino Médio (" Medial education ", or ), which comprises the last three years of school.

The term White Australia Policy comprises various historical policies that intentionally restricted non-white immigration to Australia.

The same term comprises both males and females.

Bahrain ( from the Arabic word for " two seas " — itself an inaccurate folk etymology for the much older, Semitic term, Bahran ) comprises an archipelago of thirty-three islands in the Persian Gulf, situated close to the shore of the Arabian Peninsula.

In nonscientific writing, common usage is that the term essential fatty acid comprises all the ω-3 or-6 fatty acids.

In British use, the term comprises two genera: Uria and Cepphus.

Christian metal is not a solitary style of music, but rather an ideological umbrella term that comprises almost every subgenre of heavy metal music.

" This apparently serious term ‘ psychogeography ,'" writes Debord biographer Vincent Kaufman, " comprises an art of conversation and drunkenness, and everything leads us to believe that Debord excelled at both.

The IAA Council comprises the President whose term of office is one year, the Officers and one delegate per Full Member association and one delegate per Section.

It comprises large garden apartment buildings ( the term was invented for buildings in Jackson Heights ) and many groupings of private homes.

Under the civil law systems of European countries such as Italy, Belgium and France, " magistrat " ( French ) or " magistrato " ( Italian ) is a generic term which comprises both prosecutors and judges ( distinguished as ' standing ' versus ' sitting ' magistrature ).

In its original ethnographic and dialectological sense, the term Cham comprises the entire Albanian-speaking population of the Thesprotia and Preveza regional units of Greek Epirus, including both the Muslim and Christian populations.

The term Church Militant comprises all living Christians while Church Triumphant comprises those in Heaven.

In software design, look and feel is a term used in respect of a graphical user interface and comprises aspects of its design, including elements such as colors, shapes, layout, and typefaces ( the " look "), as well as the behavior of dynamic elements such as buttons, boxes, and menus ( the " feel ").

A third group comprises the Northern Sotho, a term sometimes incorrectly reduced to one prominent Northern Sotho people, the Bapedi.

The term bi-quinary indicates that the code comprises both a two-state ( bi ) and a five-state ( quinary ) component.

Geographically, the term North Caucasus comprises the northern slope and western extremity of the Caucasus Major mountain range, as well as a part of its southern slope to the West ( until the Psou River ).

It is also the home of the University of Toronto Intramural hockey league, which comprises ( as of the Winter term of 2006 ) of forty-six men's and eight women's teams of varying skill levels ( from recreational to near-varsity calibre ) competing in six men's and two women's divisions.

Bhārata is the official Sanskrit name of the country,, and the name is derived from the ancient Indian texts, the Puranas, which refers to the land that comprises India as Bhārata, and uses this term to distinguish it from other or continents.

The generic term " țuică " comprises plum brandies ( jinars, horincă, cocârț, tura ) and other fruit brandies.

The Parish Council comprises seven elected members from Thornford and three from Beer Hackett, all of whom serve a four year term of office.

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

The term has become a conventional means to describe anything associated with the Internet and the diverse Internet culture.

This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, internet slang, and evolutionary neuroscience.

This article uses the term " Mandarin " in the sense used by linguists, referring to the diverse group of Mandarin dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà.

Anthropology studies the diverse systems of ownership, rights of use and transfer, and possession under the term " theories of property.

David Wootton, for instance, argues that throughout history the meanings of the term republicanism have been so diverse, and at times contradictory, that the term is all but meaningless and any attempt to build a cogent ideology based on it will fail.

The whole issue is closely linked with, and in a sense depends upon, the widely used term security through diversity-the wide range of " long tail " minority products is clearly more diverse than a market leader in any product type, so a random attack will be less likely to succeed.

A recent Publication by the Australian Human Rights Commission on " sexual orientation and gender identity " uses " sex and / or gender identity " as a broad term to refer to diverse sex and / or gender identities and expressions, including being " transgender, trans, transsexual and intersex.

The term percussionist applies to a musician who performs struck musical instruments of numerous diverse shapes, sizes and applications.

The environmental movement, a term that includes the conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.

This helps to explain the extremely wide and diverse range of the application of the term " thought experiment " once it had been introduced into English.

Complex systems is therefore often used as a broad term encompassing a research approach to problems in many diverse disciplines including anthropology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, chemistry, computer science, economics, evolutionary computation, earthquake prediction, meteorology, molecular biology, neuroscience, physics, psychology and sociology.

The Sanskrit term ल ि ङ ् ग ं, transliterated as linga, has diverse meaning ranging from gender and sex to philosophic and religions to uses in common language, such as a mark, sign or characteristic.

A similar adjective is gender-normative ; Eli R. Green wrote, " The term ' cisgendered ' is used of the more popular ' gender normative ' to refer to people who do not identify with a gender diverse experience, without enforcing existence of a ' normative ' gender expression.

On 14 September 2011, Liberal Premier Barry O ' Farrell announced that he had recommended to the Queen that Bashir's term be extended for another two years to 2014, which had been accepted: " Over the past 10 years the Governor's caring nature, her genuine interest in local communities and her extraordinary work rate have endeared her to people everywhere ... Because of her diverse background, career and interests, Professor Bashir has given a historic and important post a contemporary relevance and resonance.

The term " law " has diverse usage in many cases: approximate, accurate, broad or narrow theories, in all natural scientific disciplines ( physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy etc .).

The concept of the developing nation is found, under one term or another, in numerous theoretical systems having diverse orientations — for example, theories of decolonization, liberation theology, Marxism, anti-imperialism, and political economy.

It is elected to a four-year term by universal adult suffrage in multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian and Muslim denominations.

The umbrella term " natural language understanding " can be applied to a diverse set of computer applications, ranging from small, relatively simple tasks such as short commands issued to robots, to highly complex endeavors such as the full comprehension of newspaper articles or poetry passages.

Today, the mixes among races and ethnicities are diverse, so it is considered preferable to use the term " mixed-race " or simply " mixed " ( mezcla ).

This is primarily seen in reports on aircraft accidents, but the term is used for the conclusion of diverse types of transportation accidents investigated in the United States by the National Transportation Safety Board or its predecessor, the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Lhoba ( Chinese: 珞巴 ) is a term of obscure ( though probably Tibetan ) origin which has come to apply to a diverse amalgamation of Tibeto-Burman tribespeople living in and around " Pemako " ( a region in Southeastern Tibet ), including Mainling, Medog, Zayü counties of Nyingchi Prefecture and Lhünzê County of Shannan Prefecture.