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Definition: Amyloid |
AmyloidAdjective1. Resembling starch. Noun1. A nonnitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch. 2. (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A general term for a variety of different proteins that accumulate as extracellular fibrils of 7-10 nm and have common structural features, including a beta-pleated sheet conformation and the ability to bind such dyes as Congo red and thioflavine (Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessel, Principles of Neural Science, 3rd ed). (references) |
Science | Staining blue, blue-purple, blue-black or reddish in iodine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AmyloidSynonyms: amylaceous (adj), amyloidal (adj), starchlike (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amyloid |
| English words defined with "amyloid": amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaque, amyloidosis ♦ Lardacein ♦ Sago spleen, secretase ♦ Waxy degeneration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amyloid": Amyloid beta-Protein, Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, amyloid degeneration, amyloid filament, Amyloid P Component, Amyloid Protein AA, Amyloid Protein SAA ♦ Glycoproteins ♦ Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction, pre-amyloid plaque ♦ Renal amyloidosis ♦ Senile Plaques. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Amyloid -- See beta amyloid. (references) | |
Some of these clues point to beta amyloid. (references) | ||
Free radicals may also have a connection with beta amyloid. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Amyloid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.80% of the time. "Amyloid" is used about 49 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.8% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amyloid": Amyloid beta-Protein ♦ Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor ♦ amyloid degeneration ♦ amyloid filament ♦ Amyloid Neuropathies ♦ Amyloid P Component ♦ amyloid plaque ♦ amyloid protein ♦ Amyloid Protein AA ♦ amyloid protein plaque ♦ Amyloid Protein SAA ♦ Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "amyloid": beta-amyloid, pre-amyloid. | |
| 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 |
amyloid | 50 |
beta amyloid | 13 |
cerebral amyloid angiopathy | 8 |
amyloid angiopathy | 6 |
amyloid disease | 5 |
amyloid plaque | 4 |
amyloid protein | 3 |
amyloid serum | 3 |
amyloid dog serum | 3 |
amyloid precursor protein | 2 |
amyloid beta protein | 2 |
amyloid neuropathy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amyloid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نشوي (farinaceous, starchy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдържащ скорбяла (starchy), като нишесте. (various references) | |
Czech | škrobovitý. (various references) | |
Danish | amyloid. (various references) | |
Dutch | amyloïed, amyloïd, hydrocellulose. (various references) | |
Finnish | amyloidi-pesäke (amyloid deposit). (various references) | |
French | amylobacter, amyloïde, substance amyloïde. (various references) | |
German | Amyloid (amyloid degeneration, amyloidosis). (various references) | |
Greek | αμυλοειδές. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keményítõszerû. (various references) | |
Italian | amiloide. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amyloiday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amilóide. (various references) | |
Russian | амилоидный, амилоид. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | amiloid. (various references) | |
Spanish | amiloide. (various references) | |
Swedish | amyloid inlagring (amyloid deposit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крохмальний (starched), крохмалистий (farinaceous, starchy), амілоїд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thức ăn dạng tinh bột, dạng tinh bột, chất tựa tinh bột. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amyloid": amyloidoses, amyloidosis, amyloids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amyloid" (pronounced a"muloy'd) |
| 4 | -u l oy' d | alkaloid, celluloid, mongoloid. |
| 3 | -l oy' d | unalloyed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-m-o-y" | |
-1 letter: amidol, daimyo, milady. | |
-2 letters: amido, daily, dimly, doily, dolma, domal, loamy, madly, modal, moldy, myoid. | |
-3 letters: amid, amyl, dial, diol, idly, idol, idyl, lady, laid, lido, lima, limo, limy, load, loam, maid, mail, mayo, mild, milo, modi, moil, mola, mold, moly, odyl, oily, oldy, yald. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, ail, aim, ami, dal, dam, day. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-m-o-y" | |
+1 letter: amyloids, modality, olympiad. | |
+2 letters: diplomacy, olympiads, polyamide, sympodial. | |
+3 letters: amygdaloid, bimodality, dominantly, formidably, manifoldly, modularity, myocardial, polyamides. | |
+4 letters: abdominally, amphiploidy, amygdaloids, amyloidoses, amyloidosis, comedically, demonically, dilatometry, domiciliary, homicidally, indomitably, maladroitly, maledictory, mandatorily, melodically, monodically, polygamized, sigmoidally. | |
+5 letters: admonitorily, amygdaloidal, commandingly, demoniacally, dogmatically, domestically, hemodialyses, hemodialysis, holidaymaker, immoderately, imponderably, mendaciously, meridionally, methodically, modulability, monopodially, oleandomycin, primordially. | |
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