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NUCLEOCAPSID

Specialty Definition: NUCLEOCAPSID

DomainDefinition

Health

A protein-nucleic acid complex which forms part or all of a virion. It consists of a capsid plus enclosed nucleic acid. Depending on the virus, the nucleocapsid may correspond to a naked core or be surrounded by a membranous envelope. (references)

Medicine

Protein coat of a virus together with the nucleic acid which it encloses. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: NUCLEOCAPSID

Specialty definitions using "NUCLEOCAPSID": Nucleocapsid ProteinsTogaviridae, TorovirusViral Core Proteins, Viral Matrix Proteins, Viral Structural Proteins, Virosomes. (references)

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Photo Album: NUCLEOCAPSID

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Transmission electron micrograph of parainfluenza virus. Two intact particles and free filamentous nucleocapsid. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: NUCLEOCAPSID

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The S RNA encodes the nucleocapsid (N) protein. (references)

Transcription of viral genes is initiated by association of the L protein with the three nucleocapsid species. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NUCLEOCAPSID

"NUCLEOCAPSID" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "NUCLEOCAPSID" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)80%8124,375
Noun (singular)20%2245,945
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: NUCLEOCAPSID

Expression using "NUCLEOCAPSID": Nucleocapsid Proteins. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NUCLEOCAPSID

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

Danish

  

nukleokapsid, nukleærkapsid. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nucleokapside (capsid, viral coat), nucleocapside (core of the virus, viral core). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nukleokapsidi. (various references)

   

French

  

nucléocapside. (various references)

   

German

  

Nukleokapsid. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νουκλεοκαψίδιο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

nucleocapside. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucleocapsidnay

   

Portuguese

  

core. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nucleocápside. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nukleokapsid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NUCLEOCAPSID

Derivations

Words beginning with "NUCLEOCAPSID": nucleocapsids. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NUCLEOCAPSID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-u"

-2 letters: aneuploids, cloudscape.

-3 letters: aneuploid, clupeoids, concludes, dulcineas, inclasped, insculped, nucleoids, palinodes, pedocalic, unclasped, unpoliced, unspoiled.

-4 letters: alnicoes, alopecic, apolunes, calcined, calcines, calicoes, canopied, canopies, capelins, capsuled, caudices, celadons, cleanups, clupeids, clupeoid, cocaines, codeinas, conceals, conclude, conduces, councils, cupolaed, cuspidal, delusion, diocesan, displace, dulcinea, duncical, ecocidal, edacious, euploids, inclosed, includes, insouled, lacunose, lunacies, nucleoid.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-u"
 

+1 letter: nucleocapsids.

 

+2 letters: conceptualised.

 

+5 letters: microencapsulated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NUCLEOCAPSID


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 55 43 4C 45 4F 43 41 50 53 49 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01010101 01000011 01001100 01000101 01001111 01000011 01000001 01010000 01010011 01001001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0055 0043 004C 0045 004F 0043 0041 0050 0053 0049 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

485537463949373550534338

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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