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INSULIN-LIKE

Specialty Definition: INSULIN-LIKE

DomainDefinition

Health

Muscular growth factor. (references)

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

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Crosswords: INSULIN-LIKE

Specialty definitions using "INSULIN-LIKE": Insulin Like Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 4, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 2, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding-Protein 5, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 6SomatomedinsVanadates. (references)

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Commercial Usage: INSULIN-LIKE

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Books

  • Molecular Mechanisms to Regulate the Activities of Insulin-like Growth Factors (reference)

  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Human and Experimental Diabetes (reference)

  • Current Directions in Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 343) (reference)

  • Modern Concepts of Insulin-Like Growth Factors: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Insulin-Like Growth Factors/Somatomedins Held ja (reference)

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins: Proceedings (International Congress Series, Vol.881) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: INSULIN-LIKE

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Health

Secretion of GH by the pituitary into the bloodstream causes the production of another hormone, called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), in the liver. (references)

In addition to estrogen, other endogenous cofactors that could enhance net calcium absorption include growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor-I, and parathyroid hormone. (references)

In rare cases, some cancers such as breast cancer and adrenal cancer may cause hypoglycemia through secretion of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor II. The treatment is removal of the tumor, if possible. (references)

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Usage Frequency: INSULIN-LIKE

"INSULIN-LIKE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INSULIN-LIKE" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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Expressions: INSULIN-LIKE

Expressions using "INSULIN-LIKE": Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Insulin-Like Growth Factor II Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 2 Insulin-Like Growth-Factor Binding Protein 1 Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding Proteins Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding-Protein 5 Nonsuppressible Insulin-Like Activity. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "INSULIN-LIKE": insulin-like-growth, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 6.

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Modern Translation: INSULIN-LIKE

Language Translations for "INSULIN-LIKE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

insulin like growth factor (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1), somatomedin (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

insuline-like groeifactor (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

insuliininkaltainen kasvutekijä (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

French

  

insulin-like growth factor (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1), facteur ILG (insulin-like-growth factor). (various references)

   

German

  

Insulin-Like Growth-Factor (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ινσουλινοειδής αυξητικός παράγοντας (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

Italian

  

insulin like growth factor (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

insulin-likeay

   

Spanish

  

somatomedina C (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1), factor de crecimiento de tipo insulínico I (insulin growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 1). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INSULIN-LIKE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-i-i-k-l-l-n-n-s-u"

-4 letters: insulin, inulins, killies, nunlike, sunlike, unlinks.

-5 letters: ennuis, inkles, inulin, killie, kinins, knells, likens, lilies, linens, linins, lunies, nielli, sileni, silken, sullen, sunken, unlike, unlink, unsell.

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INDEX

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


  

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