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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A polypeptide hormone produced in the hypothalamus, and other tissues and organs. It inhibits the release of human growth hormone, and also modulates important physiological functions of the kidney, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. Somatostatin receptors are widely expressed throughout the body. Somatostatin also acts as a neurotransmitter in the central and peripheral nervous systems. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SOMATOSTATIN |
| Specialty definitions using "SOMATOSTATIN": D Cells ♦ Octreotide ♦ Receptors, Pancreatic Hormone ♦ SMT-487, Subcommissural Organ. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Octreotide is a synthetic form of a brain hormone, somatostatin, that stops GH production. (references) | |
Delta cells secrete the hormone somatostatin, which inhibits insulin and glucagon secretion. (references) | ||
Pancreatic tumors that secrete too much glucagon or somatostatin can cause diabetes, and too much vasoactive intestinal peptide can cause diarrhea. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SOMATOSTATIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOMATOSTATIN" is used about 79 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 (singular) | 100% | 79 | 37,388 |
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 |
somatostatin | 38 |
analogue somatostatin | 3 |
fistula somatostatin | 3 |
antibody somatostatin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOMATOSTATIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | somatostatin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | somatostatine, somatostatin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | somatostatiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | somatostatine (somatotropin inhibiting factor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Somatostatin (somatotropin inhibiting factor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | somatostatina (somatotropin inhibiting factor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omatostatinsay somatostatina. (various references) somatostatina. (various references) somatostatin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SOMATOSTATIN": somatostatins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: anatomists. | |
-3 letters: anatomist, antiatoms, ostinatos. | |
-4 letters: amotions, anosmias, antiatom, antistat, atomists, attaints, mantissa, ostinato, ottomans, satanism, satanist, staminas, stasimon, stations. | |
-5 letters: amotion, anattos, animato, anosmia, atomist, attains, attaint, manitos, mattins, monists, motions, ottoman, santims, simoons, sonatas, stamina, stasima, statant, station, statism, statist, stomata, tanists, tatamis, tattoos, tomtits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: somatostatins. | |
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