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LEWY BODY

Specialty Definition: LEWY BODY

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Medicine

Abnormal structure present in the surviving neurons of Parkinson's patients. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: LEWY BODY

Specialty definitions using "LEWY BODY": Lewy Bodies. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: LEWY BODY

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Health

Research efforts also include basic investigations of Lewy bodies, in an effort to understand the biological consequences of Lewy body formation and the mechanisms of disease progression. (references)

A protein called alpha-synuclein is known to accumulate abnormally in plaques in AD, in Lewy bodies in Lewy body disease and Parkinson's disease, and in a number of other diseases that are collectively called synucleinopathies. (references)

Similarly, many PD patients develop dementia and have neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques like those found in AD. A further indication of overlap is Lewy body disease, a neurodegenerative disorder whose clinical signs occupy a middle ground between AD on the one hand and PD on the other. (references)

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Expression: LEWY BODY

Expression using "LEWY BODY": Lewy Body Disease. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEWY BODY

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

lewy body dementia

103

lewy body disease

73

lewy body

72
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Modern Translation: LEWY BODY

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

French

  

corps de Lewy. (various references)

   

German

  

Lewy-Körperchen. (various references)

   

Italian

  

corpo di Lewy. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewylay odybay

   

Spanish

  

cuerpo de Lewy. (various references)

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Anagrams: LEWY BODY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-o-w-y-y"

-2 letters: blowed, bowled, doyley, yowled.

-3 letters: below, blowy, bowed, bowel, dowel, doyly, elbow, lobed, lowed, odyle, wyled, yodel, yodle, yowed.

-4 letters: bled, blew, blow, bode, body, bold, bole, bowl, dewy, doby, dole, lewd, lobe, lode, lowe, obey, odyl, oldy, owed, weld, wold, wyle, yeld, yowe, yowl.

-5 letters: bed, bel, bey, bod, bow, boy, bye, deb.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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