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"INTERFERONS" is a plural of: interferon. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Proteins secreted by vertebrate cells in response to a wide variety of inducers. They confer resistance against many different viruses, inhibit proliferation of normal and malignant cells, impede multiplication of intracellular parasites, enhance macrophage and granulocyte phagocytosis, augment natural killer cell activity, and show several other immunomodulatory functions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: INTERFERONS |
| Specialty definitions using "INTERFERONS": 2',5'-Oligoadenylate Synthetase ♦ Immunotherapy, Active, Interferon Inducers, Interferon Type I, Recombinant, Interferon-alpha, Interferon-beta ♦ Receptors, Interferon. (references) |
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Health | One of the most promising MS research areas involves naturally occurring antiviral proteins known as interferons. (references) | |
In this way relatively simple organisms such as bacteria or yeast can be induced to make quantities of human proteins, including interferons and interleukins. (references) | ||
Ampligen is a synthetic nucleic acid product that stimulates the production of interferons, a family of immune response modifiers that are also known to have anti-viral activity. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INTERFERONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "INTERFERONS" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
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 |
interferons | 9 |
interferons type | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INTERFERONS" (pronounced i'nterfi"rÄnz) |
| 4 | -r Ä n z | citron, electrons, negatrons, neurons. |
| 3 | -Ä n z | chlorofluorocarbons, tampons, zircons. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: interferon. | |
-2 letters: firestone, frontiers, orneriest, reorients, tensioner, torrefies. | |
-3 letters: enterons, ferniest, ferrites, forester, fosterer, frontier, frostier, infernos, infester, inserter, intenser, internes, intoners, introrse, oneriest, refiners, reforest, refronts, reinsert, reinters, rentiers, reorient, rotifers, serotine, softener, tenoners, ternions, terrines. | |
-4 letters: enteron, entires, entries, estrone, fernier, ferrets, ferries, ferrite, forints, forties, fronter, frontes, inferno, intense, interne, interns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: frontiersmen. | |
+3 letters: foreshortening, nonforfeitures, reinforcements. | |
+4 letters: confraternities, overrefinements, perfunctoriness. | |
+5 letters: aminotransferase, antiferromagnets, noninterferences. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 54 45 52 46 45 52 4F 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. - . .-. ..-. . .-. --- -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000110 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N T E R F E R O N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 0046 0045 0052 004F 004E 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4348543952403952494853 |
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