cardiolipin
noun
cardiolipin is a noun meaning “Any phospholipid having the structure of a bisphosphatidylglycerol present in the muscles of the heart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-L-I-P-I-N, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cardiolipin is cardiolipins.
What does cardiolipin mean?
noun
- 1
Any phospholipid having the structure of a bisphosphatidylglycerol present in the muscles of the heart
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cardiolipin
- cardiolipins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cardiolipin?
Cardiolipin appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cardiolipin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any phospholipid having the structure of a bisphosphatidylglycerol present in th:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | cardiolipina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.