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"LIPOSOMES" is a common misspelling or typo for: liposome. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Artificial, single or multilaminar vesicles (made from lecithins or other lipids) that are used for the delivery of a variety of biological molecules or molecular complexes to cells, for example, drug delivery and gene transfer. They are also used to study membranes and membrane proteins. (references) |
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Crosswords: LIPOSOMES |
| Specialty definitions using "LIPOSOMES": 1,2-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine ♦ Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine, Drug Carriers. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Liposomes are microscopic capsules made up of lipids or fats that can be taken up by cells and can incorporate DNA pieces with the genes for proteins, such as CFTR. Liposomes are not derived from viruses and it is uncertain whether the lipids themselves may cause side effects or immune responses. (references) | |
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| "LIPOSOMES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "LIPOSOMES" is used about 26 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) | 61.54% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.46% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
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| 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 |
liposomes | 49 |
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| Language | Translations for "LIPOSOMES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | indkapsling i liposomer (encapsulation in liposomes). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | inkapseling in liposomen (encapsulation in liposomes). (various references) | ||||
French | encapsulation en liposomes (encapsulation in liposomes). (various references) | ||||
German | Einkapselung in Liposome (encapsulation in liposomes). (various references) | ||||
Italian | incapsulamento in liposomi (encapsulation in liposomes). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | iposomeslay | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LIPOSOMES" (pronounced li"pusō'mz) |
| 3 | -ō' m z | catacombs, chromosomes, cyclostomes, rhizomes, syndromes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: liposome. | |
-2 letters: imposes, lissome, osmoles, pomelos, simples. | |
-3 letters: impels, impose, lissom, looies, looses, mioses, missel, molies, osmole, osmols, osmose, pilose, plisse, poises, poleis, polies, polios, pomelo, posies, simple, slimes, slipes, sloops, slopes, smiles, speils, spiels, spiles, spoils, spools. | |
-4 letters: impel, isles, limes, limos, limps, lisps, loess, looie, looms, loops, loose, lopes, loses, miles, milos. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-p-s-s" | |
+2 letters: homoplasies, monopolises. | |
+3 letters: cosmopolises, cosmopolites, metropolises, pleochroisms, scopolamines. | |
+4 letters: compressional, heliotropisms, megalopolises, phlebotomists, pleomorphisms, polyribosomes. | |
+5 letters: compassionless, epistemologies, epistemologist, histoplasmoses, multiprocessor, omphaloskepsis. | |
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