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"MELANOCYTES" is a plural of: melanocyte. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Epidermal dendritic pigment cells which control long-term morphological color changes by alteration in their number or in the amount of pigment they produce and store in the pigment containing organelles called melanosomes. Melanophores are larger cells which do not exist in mammals. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MELANOCYTES |
| English words defined with "MELANOCYTES": malignant melanoma, melanocyte-stimulating hormone, melanoma, MSH. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MELANOCYTES": Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle ♦ Iris Neoplasms ♦ Melanosomes ♦ Nevus, Blue, nonmelanoma skin cancer, nonmelanomatous. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Understanding the role of DNA repair defects in melanocytes. (references) | |
Studying the relationship between melanocytes and the cells of moles. (references) | ||
UVR also increases the transfer of melanosomes from melanocytes to keratinocytes. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MELANOCYTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MELANOCYTES" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
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 |
melanocytes | 26 |
melanocytes vitiligo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MELANOCYTES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | hudmelanocytter (dermal melanocytes). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | mélanocytes dermiques (dermal melanocytes). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | dermale Melanozyten (dermal melanocytes). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elanocytesmay melanócitos dérmicos (dermal melanocytes). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: melanocyte, solacement. | |
-2 letters: selectman, telamones. | |
-3 letters: acetones, acolytes, amylenes, anolytes, casement, cleanest, lactones, mesnalty, notecase, secantly, talesmen. | |
-4 letters: acetone, acetose, acetyls, acolyte, amnesty, amylene, amylose, anolyte, calmest, camlets, cantles, celesta, cementa, cements, cenotes, centals, cetanes, cleanse, clement, cleomes, coatees, comates, cymenes, enamels, enclose, enlaces, enolase, etalons, etymons, lactone, lactose, laments, lancets, lateens, latency, leanest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: cholestyramine, commensurately, laryngectomees, laryngectomies. | |
+4 letters: cholestyramines, electrodynamics. | |
+5 letters: sclerenchymatous. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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