chylomicron
noun
chylomicron is a noun meaning “A microscopic globule of lipoprotein, found in blood and lymph, that is associated with the digestion of fats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-Y-L-O-M-I-C-R-O-N, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chylomicron is chylomicrons.
What does chylomicron mean?
noun
- 1
A microscopic globule of lipoprotein, found in blood and lymph, that is associated with the digestion of fats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chylomicron
- chylomicrons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chylomicron?
Chylomicron appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).
Chylomicron in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense microscopic globule of lipoprotein:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | quilomícron |
| Spanish | quilomicrón |
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.
Where does chylomicron come from?
From chylo- (“juice”) + micron (“small”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).