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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A polypeptide hormone derived from platelets which stimulates fibroblasts to migrate and lay down collagen and fibronection thereby initiating wound repair. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PDGF | Danish | Blodpladeafledt vækstfaktor | Medicine |
PDGF | Dutch | Uit bloedplaatjes afgeleide groeifactor | Medicine |
PDGF | English | Platelet derived growth factor | Medicine |
PDGF | Finnish | Verihiutalekasvutekijä | Medicine |
PDGF | French | Facteur de croissance dérivé des plaquettes | Medicine |
PDGF | German | Aus Blutplättchen stammender Wachstumsfaktor | Medicine |
PDGF | Italian | Fattore di crescita derivato dalle piastrine | Medicine |
PDGF | Portuguese | Factor de crescimento derivado das plaquetas | Medicine |
PDGF | Spanish | Factor de crecimiento derivado de las plaquetas | Medicine |
PDGF | Swedish | Trombocytrelaterad tillväxtfaktor | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PDGF |
| Specialty definitions using "PDGF": Oncogene Proteins v-sis ♦ Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha, Receptor, Platelet-Derived-Growth Factor beta, Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "PDGF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PDGF" is used about 24 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 (proper) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PDGF": PDGF gene. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PDGF": pdgf-a, Pdgf-aa, pdgf-induced, pdgf-secreting. | |
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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 |
pdgf | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PDGF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | genè PDGF (PDGF gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | gene PDGF (PDGF gene, platelet-derived growth factor gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | pdgfay gen PDGF (PDGF gene, platelet-derived growth factor gene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-g-p" | |
+5 letters: prefading, upfolding. | |
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