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Definition: Fetoprotein |
FetoproteinNoun1. Any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Transabdominal aspiration of fluid from the amniotic sac with a view to detecting increases of alpha-fetoprotein in maternal blood during pregnancy, as this is an important indicator of open neural tube defects in the fetus. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FetoproteinSynonym: foetoprotein (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: alpha-fetoprotein (medicine), alpha-fetoprotein detection (medicine, meteorology & standards). |
Crosswords: Fetoprotein |
| English words defined with "fetoprotein": AFP, alpha fetoprotein, alpha foetoprotein. (references) |
| "Fetoprotein" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fetoprotein" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fetoprotein": alpha fetoprotein. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "fetoprotein": alpha-fetoprotein. | |
| 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 |
alpha fetoprotein | 61 |
alpha fetoprotein test | 10 |
alpha fetoprotein screening | 3 |
alpha fetoprotein testing | 3 |
alfa fetoprotein | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fetoprotein": fetoproteins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-o-o-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: footprint. | |
-3 letters: entrepot, optionee, tenorite. | |
-4 letters: firepot, footier, foretop, nettier, oftener, pereion, pettier, piefort, pioneer, pointer, poofter, portent, portion, potteen, pottier, proette, protein, tentier, tortoni, treetop, tritone, tropine. | |
-5 letters: enroot, entire, ferine, fetter, fitter, foetor, footer, footie, forint, intort, netter, norite, opener, operon, option, orient, orpine, pereon, petite, petter, pointe, poteen, potent, potion, potter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-o-o-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: fetoproteins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 74 6F 70 72 6F 74 65 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . - --- .--. .-. --- - . .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01100101 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e t o p r o t e i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0074 006F 0070 0072 006F 0074 0065 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071868182848186717580 |
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