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"MICROTUBULES" is a plural of: microtubule. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Slender, cylindrical filaments found in the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells. They are composed of the protein tubulin. (references) |
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Crosswords: MICROTUBULES |
| English words defined with "MICROTUBULES": central body, centriole, centrosome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MICROTUBULES": Apicomplexa ♦ Centrioles ♦ Intermediate Filaments ♦ Kinesin, Kinetochores ♦ Microfilament Proteins, Microtubule Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Microtubule-Organizing Center ♦ Nocodazole ♦ Paclitaxel ♦ tau Proteins. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When this happens, the tau no longer holds the railroad tracks together and the microtubules fall apart. (references) | |
Tau normally forms the crosspieces between microtubules, but in Alzheimer's it twists into paired helical filaments, like two threads wound around each other. (references) | ||
Neurofibrillary tangles resisted analysis until the late 1980's, when researchers discovered they were associated with neurons' internal structures, called microtubules. (references) | ||
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| "MICROTUBULES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MICROTUBULES" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
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 |
microtubules | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "MICROTUBULES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | centre organisateur des microtubules (microtubules organizing center). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | icrotubulesmay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"MICROTUBULES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: microtuble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MICROTUBULES" (pronounced mī"krō'tuw"byuwlz) |
| 3 | -uw l z | modules, nodules. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-l-m-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: microtubule, multicourse, multisource. | |
-2 letters: columbites, crumbliest, meticulous, sclerotium. | |
-3 letters: columbite, costumier, crumbiest, lubricous, luteciums, multiuser, outclimbs, outmuscle, reticulum, tremulous. | |
-4 letters: bisector, blousier, botulism, bricoles, burliest, ciboules, citreous, climbers, cloister, clotures, clouters, clumbers, clumsier, coistrel, coliseum, corbeils, costlier, costumer, coulters, coutures, crumbles, cultures, cumbrous, curliest, customer, embroils, imbrutes, lutecium, microbes, microbus, misroute, moisture, mortices, moulters. | |
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