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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Epidermal cells which synthesize keratin and undergo characteristic changes as they move upward from the basal layers of the epidermis to the cornified (horny) layer of the skin. Successive stages of differentiation of the keratinocytes forming the epidermal layers are basal cell, spinous or prickle cell, and the granular cell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KERATINOCYTES |
| Specialty definitions using "KERATINOCYTES": Interleukin-8 ♦ TGF alpha, transforming growth factor alpha. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | UVR also increases the transfer of melanosomes from melanocytes to keratinocytes. (references) | |
It is unclear whether UVR affects Langerhans cells both directly and indirectly through soluble factors released by damaged keratinocytes. (references) | ||
In the epidermis UVR-induced changes include aberrant tissue architecture and alterations in keratinocytes and melanocytes and functional changes in Langerhans cells. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "KERATINOCYTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KERATINOCYTES" 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
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 |
keratinocytes | 9 |
desmosomes epidermis keratin keratinocytes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: carnotites, certainest, intercaste, orientates, racketiest, stationery. | |
-4 letters: ankerites, anoretics, antistory, astrocyte, attorneys, carnotite, carotenes, caryotins, catteries, centiares, certainty, cisternae, contester, contrasty, cornetist, crankiest, crayonist, creakiest, creatines, creations, croakiest, cytokines, erections, esoterica, eyestrain, insectary, interacts, intersect, intestacy, iterances, karyotins, keratotic, keynoters, nectaries, neoterics, orientate, reactions, reinstate, resection, secretion, stationer, stockinet, taconites, tenorites, tractions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 45 52 41 54 49 4E 4F 43 59 54 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- . .-. .- - .. -. --- -.-. -.--. - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01001111 01000011 01011001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K E R A T I N O C Y T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 004E 004F 0043 0059 0054 0045 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)45395235544348493759543953 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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