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"ASTROCYTES" is a plural of: astrocyte. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The largest and most numerous neuroglial cells in the brain and spinal cord. Astrocytes (from "star" cells) are irregularly shaped with many long processes, including those with "end feet" which form the glial (limiting) membrane and directly and indirectly contribute to the blood brain barrier. They regulate the extracellular ionic and chemical environment, and "reactive astrocytes" (along with microglia) respond to injury. Astrocytes have high- affinity transmitter uptake systems, voltage-dependent and transmitter-gated ion channels, and can release transmitter, but their role in signaling (as in many other functions) is not well understood. (references) |
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Crosswords: ASTROCYTES |
| Specialty definitions using "ASTROCYTES": astrocytoma, astroglia 2.macroglia ♦ Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuron-Glia ♦ Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan ♦ Interleukin-3 ♦ mixed gliomas, monoamine oxidase B ♦ proteoglycan ♦ Vitreoretinopathy, Proliferative. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They develop from star-shaped glial cells called astrocytes. (references) | |
Some examples of glia are oligodendroglia, astrocytes, and microglia. (references) | ||
Even more numerous are the glial cells (such as astrocytes), which surround, support, and nourish neurons. (references) | ||
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| "ASTROCYTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASTROCYTES" is used about 9 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 (plural) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
astrocytes | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "ASTROCYTES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Alexanders sygdom (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | ziekte van Alexander (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | Alexanderin tauti (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | maladie d'Alexander (fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | νόσος Alexander (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | malattia d'Alexander (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | astrocytesay enfermedad de Alexander (Alexander disease, Alexander syndrome, demyelinogenic leukodystrophy, dysmyelinogenic leukodystrophy, fibrinoid degeneration of astrocytes, fibrinoid leukodystrophy, megalencephaly with hyaline panneuropathy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: astrocyte, cryostats, cytasters. | |
-2 letters: actressy, coarsest, coasters, cryostat, cytaster, scatters, toasters. | |
-3 letters: actress, casters, castors, cattery, coaster, coaters, corsets, costars, costate, costers, cottars, cotters, ecstasy, escorts, estrays, oysters, recasts, rotates, scatter, scoters, sectary, sectors, stactes, starets, startsy, staters, stators, stayers, storeys, tasters, testacy, toaster, trystes, yatters. | |
-4 letters: across, actors, ascots, assert, assort, asters, caress. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: countryseats. | |
+3 letters: spermatocytes. | |
+4 letters: oystercatchers. | |
+5 letters: psychotherapist. | |
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