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"NEURITES" is a common misspelling or typo for: neuritis. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | In tissue culture, hairlike projections of neurons stimulated by growth factors and other molecules. These projections may go on to form a branched tree of dendrites or a single axon or they may be reabsorbed at a later stage of development. "Neurite" may refer to any filamentous or pointed outgrowth of an embryonal or tissue-culture neural cell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Axons and dendrites collectively are called neurites. (references) | |
The investigators also found that exposure to the ApoE peptide caused a significant influx of calcium into the neurons, causing the cell bodies to swell and their neurites to fragment. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NEURITES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NEURITES" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: esurient, retinues, reunites. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: entires, entries, neuters, nutsier, retines, retinue, retunes, reunite, tenures, trienes, triunes, tureens, uniters, uterine. | |
-2 letters: ensure, enters, entire, enures, estrin, inerts, insert, insure, inters, inures, nereis, nester, neuter, niters, nitres, renest, rentes, resent, resite, reties, retine, retune, retuse, rusine, rutins, seiner, serein, serine, sinter, suiter, tenser, tenues, tenuis, tenure, ternes, treens, triene. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ceintures, centuries, enuretics, estuarine, genitures, interfuse, mutineers, preunites, reuniters, turneries, unsterile. | |
+2 letters: centauries, equestrian, esuriently, eutherians, frumenties, furmenties, indentures, interfused, interfuses, interludes, inurements, negritudes, neuritides, neuritises, neutralise, putrescine, quercetins, questioner, requesting, resupinate, scrutineer, subentries, tenebrious, terminuses, trusteeing, turgencies, uninterest, unreadiest, unsteadier. | |
+3 letters: antiseizure, auctioneers, aventurines, centrifuges, delustering, enterovirus, equestrians, exurbanites, furtiveness, guttersnipe, hirsuteness, immurements, innumerates, intercourse, interfluves, intersexual, investiture, meitneriums, multiscreen, natriureses, neutralised, neutralises, neutralizes, outsteering, peritoneums, persecuting, persecution, pretentious, putrescines, questioners, reinstitute, renunciates, runtinesses, rustinesses, scrutineers, septenarius, subservient, superinfect, superintend, terrigenous, truepennies, turnvereins, turpentines, unassertive, underwrites, uninterests, unrealities, urinometers, wienerwurst. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 45 55 52 49 54 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. .. - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000101 01010101 01010010 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N E U R I T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0045 0055 0052 0049 0054 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4839555243543953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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