Biologically Active Substance
sphingomyelins
sphin·go·my·e·lins
Subclass of:
Neutral Glycosphingolipids; Phospholipids
Definitions related to sphingomyelins:
  • Ceramide with phosphocholine head group.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • A class of sphingolipids found largely in the brain and other nervous tissue. They contain phosphocholine or phosphoethanolamine as their polar head group so therefore are the only sphingolipids classified as PHOSPHOLIPIDS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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