ceramide /cer·a·mide/ (ser´ah-mīd) the basic unit of the sphingolipids; it is sphingosine, or a related base, attached to a long chain fatty acyl group. Ceramides are accumulated abnormally in Farber's disease.
ceramide
ceramide trihexoside any of a specific family of glycosphingolipids; due to a deficiency of α-galactosidase A, they accumulate in Fabry's disease.
cer·am·ide (s -r m  d , sûr-md)n. Any of a group of amides formed by linking a fatty acid to sphingosine and found in plant and animal tissue. |
ceramide
[ser′əmīd]
the basic unit of the sphingolipids, consisting of sphingosine or a related base attached by means of its amino group to a long-chain fatty acyl group.
ceramide
any of a group of naturally occurring sphingolipids in which the NH2 group of sphingosine is acylated with a fatty acyl CoA derivative to form N-acylsphingosine.
ceramide glucoside
the major sphingolipid accumulated in gaucher's disease.
ceramide lactosidosis
a sphingolipidosis in which ceramide lactoside accumulates in neural and visceral tissues owing to a deficiency of a β-galactosidase.
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