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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Muscular growth factor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 6 ♦ Somatomedins ♦ Vanadates. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) | ||||||||||
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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