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HLA

Specialty Definition: HLA

DomainDefinition

Health

A glycoprotein found on the surface of all human leucocytes. The HLA region of chromosome 6 produces four such glycoproteins-A, B, C and D. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HLA

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

HLA

DutchHumaan Leukocyten AntigenMedicine

HLA

EnglishHamilton Lane AdvisorsFinance

HLA

FinnishHL-antigeeniMedicine

HLA

ItalianAntigene umano leucocitarioMedicine

HLA

SwedishHuman leukocyte antigenMedicine

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

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Crosswords: HLA

Specialty definitions using "HLA": DNA Probes, HLAHL-A, HLA-A Antigens, HLA-A1 Antigen, HLA-A2 Antigen, HLA-A3 Antigen, HLA-B Antigens, HLA-B27 Antigen, HLA-B35 Antigen, HLA-B7 Antigen, HLA-B8 Antigen, HLA-C Antigens, HLA-DP Antigens, HLA-DQ Antigens, human leucocyte antigen. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HLA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adequate Hla Matching in Keratoplasty (Developments in Ophthalmology, V. 36) (reference)

  • Celle medieret lymfolyse (CML) hos mennesket : i relation til HLA antigener og allograft rejektion (reference)

  • HLA system--new aspects : proceedings of the International Symposium on HLA System--New Aspects, Bergamo, Italy, 25-26 September 1976, organized by AVIS of Bergamo, for the 40th anniversary of its foundation, Immunohematology Research Center (reference)

  • Cell-mediated lympholysis in man : target determinants other than the established HLA antigens as defined by cytotoxic lymphocytes (reference)

  • HLA antigens in clinical medicine and biology (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HLA

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

No associations have yet been found for alleles in other HLA genes. (references)

The HLA patterns of MS patients tend to be different from those of people without the disease. (references)

Preliminary data using HLA typing have suggested that individuals bearing one particular B-locus allele, B*35, appear to be at higher risk for severe disease than all other B alleles. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HLA

"HLA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.73% of the time. "HLA" is used about 41 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 (singular)70.73%2964,444
Noun (proper)29.27%12101,599
                    Total100.00%41N/A

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

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Expressions: HLA

Expression using "HLA": HLA Antigens. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "HLA": HLA-A, HLA-A Antigens, HLA-A1, HLA-A1 Antigen, HLA-A2, HLA-A2 Antigen, HLA-A3, HLA-A3 Antigen, hla-antigen, Hla-b, HLA-B Antigens, HLA-B27, HLA-B27 Antigen, HLA-B35, HLA-B35 Antigen, HLA-B7, HLA-B7 Antigen, HLA-B8, HLA-B8 Antigen, HLA-C Antigens, HLA-D Antigens, hla-disease, HLA-DP Antigens, HLA-DQ Antigens, Hla-dr, HLA-DR Antigens, HLA-DR1, HLA-DR1 Antigen, HLA-DR2, HLA-DR2 Antigen, HLA-DR3, HLA-DR3 Antigen, HLA-DR4, HLA-DR4 Antigen, HLA-DR5, HLA-DR5 Antigen, HLA-DR6, HLA-DR6 Antigen, HLA-DR7, HLA-DR7 Antigen, hla-dra, Hla-drb, Hla-dr-positive, hla-g, hla-genotypically-identical, hla-matched, hla-restricted.

Ending with "HLA": non-hla.

Containing "HLA": anti-hla-a, Anti-hla-dr.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HLA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hla

90

hla marketing

3

b27 hla

55

g hla

2

hla typing

16

hla rti

2

hla wwe

9

hla hot

2

dr hla

6

antibody hla

2

hla matching

5

behavior data hla mhc

2

class hla iii

5

e hla hsp60

2

application development hla

4

hla torrie wilson

2

b27 gene hla

4

dpb1 hla

2

27 b hla

4

hla product

2

dis hla

4

hla tissue typing

2

hla antigen

3

group hla

2

hla mcmahon stephanie

3

association disease hla

2

hla registry

3

blood cord hla in sample typing umbilical

2

database hla

3

dpb1 hla molecular structure

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HLA

Language Translations for "HLA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

système LY-LI (HLA system), système HLA (HLA system). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

HLA τύπος (HLA type), HLA τυποποίηση (HLA typing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sistema HLA (HLA system, human leucocyte antigene system). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ahlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: HLA

LanguageDateSource1 Kings Chapter 4, Verse 17
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintSamaa uioV hla en tw beniamin
Latin405VulgateIosaphat filius Pharue in Isachar
Middle English1395WyclifSemei, the sone of Hela, in Beniamyn;
Jacobean English1611King JamesJehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
Victorian English1833WebsterJehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
Basic English1964OgdenJehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: HLA

Language1 Kings Chapter 4, Verse 17
CebuanoSi Josaphat, ang anak nga lalake ni Pharua, sa Issachar:
CroatianJošafat, sin Paruahov, u Jisakaru;
DanishJosjafat, Paruas Søn, i Issakar;
DutchJosafath, de zoon van Paruah, in Issaschar.
FinnishJoosafat, Paaruahin poika, Isaskarissa;
FrenchJosaphat, fils de Paruach, en Issacar.
GermanJosaphat, der Sohn Paruahs, in Isaschar;
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaDan Yosafar bin Paruah adalah di Isakhar.
Korean잇 사 갈 에 " " 루 아 의 아 " 여 호 사 밧 이 "
MaoriI Ihakara a Iehohapata tama a Parua:
NorwegianJosafat, sønn av Paruah, Issakar;
PortugueseJeosafá, filho de Paruá, em Issacar;   
RumanianIosafat, fiul lui Paruah, kn Isahar.
SpanishJosafat hijo de Parúaj, en Isacar.
SwedishJosafat, Paruas son, i Isaskar;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: HLA

Derivations

Words containing "HLA": ashlar, ashlared, ashlaring, ashlars, benchland, benchlands, brushland, brushlands, bushland, bushlands, chlamydes, chlamydia, chlamydiae, chlamydial, chlamydospore, chlamydospores, chlamys, chlamyses, flashlamp, flashlamps, heathland, heathlands, highland, highlander, highlanders, highlands, marshland, marshlands, northland, northlands, pahlavi, pahlavis, southland, southlands, uhlan, uhlans. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: HLA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-l"

-1 letter: ah, al, ha, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-l"
 

+1 letter: blah, dahl, dhal, hail, hale, half, hall, halm, halo, halt, harl, haul, heal, hila, hula, hyla, lakh, lash, lath.

 

+2 letters: ahold, ahull, aleph, almah, almeh, aloha, alpha, altho, blahs, chalk, chela, clach, clash, dahls, dhals, flash, galah, hadal, hails, haled, haler, hales, halid, hallo, halls, halma, halms, halos, halts, halva, halve, hamal, haole, haply, harls, haulm, hauls, hazel, heals, hemal, hilar, holla, horal, hulas, hylas, lahar, laich, laigh, laith, lakhs, larch, latch, lathe, lathi, laths, lathy, laugh, leach, leash, lehua, loach, loath, lotah, phial, phyla, plash, ralph, selah, shale, shall, shalt, shaly, shaul, shawl, sheal, shoal, slash, uhlan, whale, wheal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HLA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004C 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

424635

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Bible Trace
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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