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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Cerebrospinal fluid. The fluid flowing around the brain and spinal cord. CSF is produced in the ventricles of the brain. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CSF | Dutch | Communautair Structuurfonds | European Union |
CSF | English | Coalite Smokeless Fuels Ltd | N/A |
CSF | French | Facteur de croissance cellulaire | Medicine |
CSF | Italian | Fattore stimolante le colonie | Medicine |
CSF | Portuguese | Factor estimulador de colónias | Medicine |
CSF | Swedish | Kolonistimulerande faktor | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CSF |
| Specialty definitions using "CSF": beta 2-Microglobulin ♦ Intracranial Pressure ♦ Methoxyhydroxyphenylglycol ♦ Quinolinic Acid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CSF" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (Colony Stimulating Factor). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The nurse is instructing a black woman, a colon cancer patient and her husband on how to administer a subcutaneous injection of colony stimulating factor (CSF). CSF is used after chemotherapy to stimulate bone marrow production of white blood cells in order to prevent infection. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A sample of CSF is collected and examined for blood and cancer cells. (references) | |
The balance between production and absorption of CSF is critically important. (references) | ||
Communicating hydrocephalus occurs when the flow of CSF is blocked after it exits from the ventricles. (references) | ||
Business | III CSF will focus on the development of infrastructure and human factors, which will attract around 60 percent of total funding. (references) | |
Under the second Delors financial package and CSF III, the European Union provides a large financing for the implementation of these projects. (references) | ||
As with II CSF, most of the contribution will be managed by the Ministry of Environment, Town Planning and Public Works (YPEHODE), the Ministry responsible for the country's infrastructure. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | The Third Community Support Framework (III CSF) will provide a majority of the funding for these projects. (references) |
Greece | EU Funds of the Third Community Framework (III CSF) that are expected to be contributed to Greece's Healthcare Sector during the period 2000 - 2006 are estimated at well over a billion dollars. (references) | |
France | However, the Government still has large stakes in Air France (57.0%), France Telecom (54.0%), Renault (44.2%), Thomson Multimedia (37.0%) and Thales (formerly Thomson CSF - 33.3%). The Government has also stakes in Bull, EADS and Dassault Systemes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | Torture takes place in SSIS offices, including its headquarters in Cairo, and at CSF camps. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CSF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 59.38% of the time. "CSF" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 59.38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 34.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CSF": Thomson-csf. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
csf | 79 | csf g mobilization | 4 |
csf thomson | 27 | csf protein | 3 |
g csf | 21 | csf leakage | 3 |
gm csf | 16 | ccds csf thompson | 2 |
csf leak | 14 | csf leak symptom | 2 |
csf radiator | 11 | clan csf | 2 |
csf 1 | 6 | csf fluid | 2 |
baseball csf | 6 | bag csf medela | 2 |
csf thompson | 5 | 1 csf nokia | 2 |
csf rhinorrhea | 4 | csf pressure | 2 |
csf low pressure | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CSF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | ventilindlæggelse (cerebrospinal fluid shunting, CSF shunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | derivatie (cerebrospinal fluid shunting, CSF shunting, derivation, lead). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | nesteen johtaminen aivokammioista (cerebrospinal fluid shunting, CSF shunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | dérivation (CSF shunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ableitung (conduction, deduction, deflection, derivation, derivative, derive, differentiation, diversion, drainage, drawing off, revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | παροχέτευση (cerebrospinal fluid shunting, CSF shunting, outlet drain, turn-out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | derivazione o shunt extratecale interna (cerebrospinal fluid shunting, CSF shunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | csfay derivación (branch, branching, bypass, derivation, shunt, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | liquor cerebrospinalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-s" | |
+1 letter: fisc. | |
+2 letters: cafes, caffs, calfs, chefs, clefs, coffs, coifs, coofs, cuffs, cuifs, curfs, faces, facts, feces, fecks, fices, ficus, fiscs, flics, flocs, focus, fucks, fucus, fyces, scarf, scoff, scuff, scurf. | |
+3 letters: califs, casefy, chafes, chaffs, chiefs, chufas, chuffs, clefts, cliffs, clifts, crafts, crofts, decafs, facers, facets, facias, facies, faeces, falces, farces, fasces, fascia, fauces, fences, fescue, fiasco, fiches, fichus, ficins, ficoes, fiscal, fistic, flacks, flecks, flicks, flocks, flysch, forces, fracas, francs, fresco, frocks, fucose, fucous, fustic, scarfs, sclaff, scoffs, scruff, scuffs, scurfs, scurfy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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