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GM-CSF

Specialty Definition: GM-CSF

DomainDefinition

Health

Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. A substance that stimulates the production of white blood cells, especially granulocytes and macrophages, and cells (in the bone marrow) that are precursors of platelets. Also called sargramostim. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GM-CSF

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GM-CSF

DutchGranulocyten en makrofagen kolonie stimulerende factorMedicine

GM-CSF

EnglishGranulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factorMedicine

GM-CSF

ItalianFattore stimolante le colonie granulocitarie e macrofagicheMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: GM-CSF

Specialty definitions using "GM-CSF": Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factorsargramostim. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GM-CSF" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (GM-CSF).

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Commercial Usage: GM-CSF

DomainTitle

Books

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Non-Fiction Usage: GM-CSF

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Potentially beneficial substances released by these cells include the cytokines TGF-beta and GM-CSF (transforming growth factor-beta and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor) and several other growth factors. (references)

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Usage Frequency: GM-CSF

"GM-CSF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GM-CSF" is used about 2 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 (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translation: GM-CSF

Language Translations for "GM-CSF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

granulocyten en makrofagen kolonie stimulerende factor. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

German

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

GM-CSF, παράγων διέγερσης κοκκιοκυττάρων-μακροφάγων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

GM-CSF. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor, GM-CSF. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GM-CSF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-f-g-m-s"
 

+5 letters: magnificos.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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