Levodopa

Definition: Levodopa

Levodopa

Noun

1. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease.

Specialty Definitions: Levodopa

Domain	Definitions
Health	The naturally occurring form of dopa and the immediate precursor of dopamine. Unlike dopamine itself, it can be taken orally and crosses the blood-brain barrier. It is rapidly taken up by dopaminergic neurons and converted to dopamine. It is used for the treatment of parkinsonism and is usually given with agents that inhibit its conversion to dopamine outside of the central nervous system. (references)
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Synonyms: Levodopa

Synonyms: Bendopa (n), Brocadopa (n), Larodopa (n), L-dopa (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Levodopa

Specialty definitions using "levodopa": Benserazide ♦ Carbidopa ♦ Selegiline. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Levodopa

Domain	Title
Books	The Clinical uses of Levodopa (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Levodopa

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Carbidopa also reduces the amount of levodopa needed. (references)
		Usually, patients are given levodopa combined with carbidopa. (references)
		But after the discovery of levodopa, surgery was restricted to only a few cases. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Levodopa

"Levodopa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Levodopa" is used about 7 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 (singular)	100%	7	133,076

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

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Expression: Levodopa

Expression using "levodopa": Levodopa and Carbidopa. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Levodopa

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
levodopa	37
carbidopa levodopa	17
carbidopa levodopa side effects	3
alternative levodopa natural	2
ictus levodopa	2
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Modern Translations: Levodopa

Language		Translations for "levodopa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		levodopa. (various references)

Dutch		levodopa. (various references)

Finnish		levodopa. (various references)

French		levodopa, lévodopa. (various references)

German		Levodopa. (various references)

Italian		levodopa. (various references)

Pig Latin		evodopalay

Portuguese		levodopa. (various references)

Spanish		levodopa. (various references)

Swedish		levodopa. (various references)
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Derivations: Levodopa

Derivations
	Words beginning with "levodopa": levodopas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Levodopa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-o-o-p-v"
	-2 letters: looped, pedalo, poodle, pooled.
	-3 letters: laevo, laved, looed, loped, loved, padle, paled, paved, pedal, plead, poled, poove, voled.
	-4 letters: aloe, aped, apod, dale, deal, deva, dole, dopa, dope, dove, lade, lave, lead, leap, leva, levo, load, lode, loop, lope, love, odea, olea, oleo, opal, oped, oval, pale, pave, peal, plea, pled, plod, pole.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-o-o-p-v"
	+1 letter: levodopas.
	+5 letters: overpopulated.
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