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LECTINS

"LECTINS" is a plural of: lectin.


Specialty Definition: LECTINS

DomainDefinition

Health

Protein or glycoprotein substances, usually of plant origin, that bind to sugar moieties in cell walls or membranes and thereby change the physiology of the membrane to cause agglutination, mitosis, or other biochemical changes in the cell. (references)

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

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Crosswords: LECTINS

Specialty definitions using "LECTINS": HemagglutininsImmunologic Cappingmistletoe lectinReceptors, Mitogen. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LECTINS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chemical taxonomy, molecular biology, and function of plant lectins : proceedings of a symposium (reference)

  • Lectins and Cancer (reference)

  • Lectins and Glycoconjugates in Oncology (reference)

  • Lectins and Pathology (reference)

  • Plant Lectins (Chemistry and Pharmacology of Natural Products) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: LECTINS

"LECTINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LECTINS" is used about 9 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 (plural)100%9117,287

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LECTINS

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

lectins

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LECTINS

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

French

  

lectine (lectin), phytohémoagglutinine (lectin). (various references)

   

German

  

Lektin (lectin, phytaglutins, phytohemaglutinins). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lectina (lectin, phytaglutins, phytohemaglutinins). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ectinslay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LECTINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clients, stencil.

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-s-t"

-1 letter: client, clines, elints, enlist, incest, inlets, insect, lectin, lentic, listen, nicest, silent, stelic, tinsel.

-2 letters: ceils, celts, cents, cesti, cines, cites, cline, clits, elint, inlet, inset, islet, istle, lenis, liens, lines, lints, neist, nites, scent, senti, since, slice, stein, stile, telic, tiles, tines.

-3 letters: ceil, cels, celt, cent, cine, cist, cite, clit, etic.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: centiles, cutlines, inflects, lections, linecuts, stencils, telsonic, tunicles.

 

+2 letters: analcites, anelastic, canticles, cisternal, clarinets, clingiest, closeting, clunkiest, coastline, cultigens, denticles, elections, enclitics, flections, inelastic, insectile, laitances, larcenist, latencies, lecithins, lenticels, schnitzel, sciential, sclerotin, sectional, selecting, selection, splenetic, stenciled, stenciler.

 

+3 letters: actionless, analeptics, analgetics, anthelices, anticlines, blatancies, cantilenas, centesimal, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrioles, chatelains, chelations, cleanliest, clientages, clienteles, clientless, clingstone, clothespin, clustering, coastlines, cobaltines, consultive, costliness, crinkliest, culminates, elocutions, escalating, escalation, fletchings, flounciest, inculcates, inculpates, inflicters, inoculates, inosculate, intellects, interclass, interlaces, interlocks, knuckliest, lacustrine, larcenists, lemniscate, lenticules, licentious, linecaster, liquescent, lunchtimes, melanistic, militances, monostelic, neoplastic, niccolites, nonelastic, novelistic, pestilence, plasticene, plasticine, pleonastic, pleustonic, princelets, relictions, schnitzels, sclerotins, sectionals, selections, semantical, skeletonic, solonetzic, splenetics, stencilers, stenciling, stencilled, stenciller, technicals, thylacines, touchlines, trucklines, unluckiest, ventricles, vetchlings.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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