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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The network of filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges which give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm. (references) |
Medicine | An internal skeleton that gives the eukaryotic cell its ability to move, to assume a characteristic shape, to divide, to arrange its organelles and to transport them from one location to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cytoskeleton."
Crosswords: CYTOSKELETON |
| Specialty definitions using "CYTOSKELETON": Adherens Junctions, Ankyrins ♦ Cytoskeletal Proteins ♦ Integrins ♦ Microtubules ♦ Talin. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This leads to compacting of the cytoskeleton and interruption of axonal transport. (references) | |
In these axons, which predominate in mild to moderate injuries, neurofilaments (one component of the cytoskeleton) become misaligned. (references) | ||
What disrupts axonal transport and causes delayed axon damage? There appear to be multiple causes, but changes to the cytoskeleton play a critical role. The cytoskeleton is the internal scaffolding that determines the shapes of cells. (references) | ||
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| "CYTOSKELETON" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CYTOSKELETON" is used about 11 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 (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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 |
cytoskeleton | 29 |
cytoskeleton map1b map2 microtubule stathmin tau taxol tubulin | 3 |
cytoskeleton erythrocyte | 2 |
cell cytoskeleton motility | 2 |
cambridge cytoskeleton | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CYTOSKELETON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cytoskelet, celleskelet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cytoskelet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | solun tukiranka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cytosquelette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zytoskelett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυτταρικός σκελετός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | citoscheletro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ytoskeletoncay citosqueleto. (various references) citoesqueleto. (various references) cytoskelett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CYTOSKELETON": cytoskeletons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-k-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: osteocyte. | |
-4 letters: ecotones, keynotes, keystone, skeleton. | |
-5 letters: cenotes, colones, console, contest, cookeys, coolest, cottons, cottony, coyotes, cytosol, ecotone, enclose, keelson, ketones, kettles, keynote, lockets, looneys, nettles, ocelots, oocytes, otocyst, sockeye, stenoky, teentsy, teleost, telnets, tensely, testoon, tonlets, tootles, tycoons. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-k-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cytoskeletons. | |
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