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B-LYMPHOCYTES

Specialty Definition: B-LYMPHOCYTES

DomainDefinition

Health

Lymphoid cells concerned with humoral immunity. They are short-lived cells resembling bursa-derived lymphocytes of birds in their production of immunoglobulin upon appropriate stimulation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: B-LYMPHOCYTES

Specialty definitions using "B-LYMPHOCYTES": Antibody-Producing Cells, Antigens, CD19, Antigens, CD40, Antigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteB-Lymphocyte SubsetsClonal Anergy, Clonal DeletionGerminal CenterHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIInterleukin-13Lymphoma, B-Cell, Lymphoma, Follicular, Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Diffuse, Lymphoma, Small Lymphocytic, Lymphoma, Small-CellReceptors, Antigen, B-Cell, Receptors, Complement, Receptors, Complement 3b, Receptors, Complement 3d, Receptors, Fc, Receptors, IgG. (references)

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Commercial Usage: B-LYMPHOCYTES

DomainTitle

Books

  • B-Lymphocytes and Autoimmunity (Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Vol 815) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: B-LYMPHOCYTES

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A female technician operates a plaque counter measuring the number of Human B-lymphocytes that are secreting immunoglobulin. The lymphocytes are grown in agar plates. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: B-LYMPHOCYTES

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This humoral component of systemic immune response is mediated by another class of lymphocytes known as B-lymphocytes, or B-cells, because they originate in the bone marrow. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: B-LYMPHOCYTES

"B-LYMPHOCYTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "B-LYMPHOCYTES" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: B-LYMPHOCYTES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-l-m-o-p-s-t-y-y"

-1 letter: lymphocytes.

-2 letters: lymphocyte.

-3 letters: hypostyle.

-4 letters: blotches, cymosely, mesophyl, polysemy, splotchy.

-5 letters: blotchy, botches, clothes, coempts, compels, cotypes, employs, methyls, motleys, peyotls, phloems, phytols, splotch, thymols, typhose.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: B-LYMPHOCYTES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 2D 4C 59 4D 50 48 4F 43 59 54 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 00101101 01001100 01011001 01001101 01010000 01001000 01001111 01000011 01011001 01010100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#45 &#76 &#89 &#77 &#80 &#72 &#79 &#67 &#89 &#84 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 002D 004C 0059 004D 0050 0048 004F 0043 0059 0054 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36154659475042493759543953

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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