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"GLUCOCORTICOIDS" is a plural of: glucocorticoid. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A group of corticosteroids that affect carbohydrate metabolism (gluconeogenesis, liver glycogen deposition, elevation of blood sugar), inhibit corticotropin secretion, and possess pronounced anti-inflammatory activity. They also play a role in fat and protein metabolism, maintenance of arterial blood pressure, alteration of the connective tissue response to injury, reduction in the number of circulating lymphocytes, and functioning of the central nervous system. (references) |
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Crosswords: GLUCOCORTICOIDS |
| Specialty definitions using "GLUCOCORTICOIDS": Choline-Phosphate Cytidylyltransferase ♦ Glucocorticoids, Synthetic ♦ Receptors, Glucocorticoid. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Glucocorticoids decrease calcium absorption. (references) | |
Another hypothesis, involving the hormones called glucocorticoids, ties in with this theory. (references) | ||
Now several laboratories are exploring mechanisms by which glucocorticoids might lead to neuron death through their effect on glucose metabolism. (references) | ||
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| "GLUCOCORTICOIDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GLUCOCORTICOIDS" is used about 8 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 (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
glucocorticoids | 29 |
glucocorticoid glucocorticoids | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLUCOCORTICOIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | glukocorticoider. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | glucocorticoïeden, glucocorticoïden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | glucocorticoïdes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Glukokortikosteroide, Glukokortikoide, Glucocorticoide, S-Hormone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλυκοκορτικοειδή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | glucocorticoidi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ucocorticoidsglay glico-corticóides. (various references) glucocorticoides. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-d-g-i-i-l-o-o-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: glucocorticoid. | |
-5 letters: colicroots, coloristic, corticoids, glucosidic, sociologic. | |
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