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| Domain | Definition |
Health | An adhesive glycoprotein. One form circulates in plasma, acting as an opsonin; another is a cell-surface protein which mediates cellular adhesive interactions. (references) |
Medicine | An adhesive glycoprotein. One form circulates in plasma, acting as an opsonin; another is a cell-surface protein which mediates cellular adhesive interactions. Fibronectins are important in connective tissue, where they cross-link to collagen, and they are also involved in aggregation of platelets. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: FIBRONECTIN |
| Specialty definitions using "FIBRONECTIN": Fibrin Tissue Adhesive ♦ Platelet Glycoprotein GPIIb-IIIa Complex ♦ Receptors, Cytoadhesin, Receptors, Fibronectin ♦ Stromelysin 1. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fluorescent-labeled fibronectin is seen on the surface of a single cell. Fibronectin (a protein glue) often disappears when cells become cancerous. The fibronectins appears red. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
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| "FIBRONECTIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FIBRONECTIN" is used about 45 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% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FIBRONECTIN": fibronectin-type. | |
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| 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 |
fetal fibronectin | 41 |
fibronectin | 21 |
fetal fibronectin test | 5 |
bone demineralized dried fibronectin freeze | 3 |
fibronectin polymer | 3 |
fibronectin unigraft | 3 |
fibronectin isoelectric point | 2 |
fibronectin fluorescent | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "FIBRONECTIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | fibronectin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fibronectine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | fibronectine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Fibronectin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιστονεκτίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | fibronettina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibronectinfay fibronectina. (various references) fibronectina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FIBRONECTIN": fibronectins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: infection. | |
-3 letters: confiner, fibrotic, friction, infector, nicotine, notifier. | |
-4 letters: bicorne, biontic, bonfire, bonnier, bornite, cinerin, citrine, coinfer, cointer, confine, conifer, coniine, crinite, fibroin, fiction, finnier, inciter, inferno, intoner, neritic, nicotin, niftier, noritic, noticer, oneiric, orifice, ternion, tinnier. | |
-5 letters: bicorn, bicron, bionic, biotic, biotin, bonier, bonnet, bonnie, citrin, citron, coiner, confer, confit, conine, conner, corbie. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fibronectins. | |
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