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Definition: TNF |
TNFNoun1. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages); has an antineoplastic effect but causes inflammation (as in rheumatoid arthritis). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
TNF | English | Theater Nuclear Forces | Military & Defense, International Organizations |
TNF | German | Tumor-Nekrose-Faktor | Medicine |
TNF | Italian | Armi nucleari tattiche | Military & Defense, International Organizations |
TNF | Portuguese | Factor de necrose tumoral | Medicine |
TNF | Swedish | Tumor necrosis factor | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TNFSynonyms: tumor necrosis factor (n), tumour necrosis factor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: TNF |
| English words defined with "TNF": anti-TNF compound ♦ Enbrel, etanercept ♦ infliximab ♦ Remicade. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TNF": TNF alpha antigen converting enzyme. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Anti-TNF removes TNF from the bloodstream before it reaches the intestines, thereby preventing inflammation. (references) | |
TNF is a protein produced by the immune system that may cause the inflammation associated with Crohn's disease. (references) | ||
However, evaluation of soluble receptors for TNF and IL-2 demonstrated that they were strikingly elevated in HPS patients, as compared with controls. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TNF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TNF" is used about 82 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% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TNF": TNF alpha antigen converting enzyme. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TNF": anti-tnf. | |
Containing "TNF": anti-TNF compound. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
tnf | 34 |
tnf alpha | 15 |
anti tnf | 13 |
inhibitor tnf | 5 |
antibody tnf | 5 |
antagonist tnf | 5 |
alpha inhibitor tnf | 5 |
anti therapy tnf | 5 |
agent anti tnf | 5 |
factor necrosis tnf tumor | 4 |
blocker tnf | 4 |
alpha antagonist tnf | 4 |
normal serum serum tnf values | 3 |
receptor tnf | 3 |
beta tnf | 2 |
blockers tnf | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "f-n-t" | |
+1 letter: font. | |
+2 letters: faint, feint, flint, fonts, fount, front, futon, nifty, often, unfit. | |
+3 letters: caftan, confit, faints, fanjet, fantod, fantom, fasten, fating, fatten, feints, feting, finest, finite, flaunt, flints, flinty, fluent, foment, fontal, forint, founts, fronts, funest, futons, infant, infect, infest, kaftan, nonfat, notify, soften, tiffin, tinful, unfelt, unfits, unfixt. | |
+4 letters: affiant, affront, antefix, antifat, antiflu, antifur, benefit, caftans, confect, confits, confute, defiant, defunct, eftsoon, engraft, faction, fainest, fainted, fainter, faintly, fanatic, fanjets, fantail, fantasm, fantast, fantasy, fantods, fantoms, fanwort, farting, fastens, fasting, fatling, fatness, fattens, fatting, feinted, felting, ferment, fervent, festoon, fetting, fiction, fifteen, figment, finfoot, finites, fishnet, fisting, fitment, fitness, fitting, flatten, flaunts, flaunty, flinted, fliting, fluting, flyting, foments, fondant, fondest, fontina, footing, footman, footmen, forints, formant, fortune, forwent, foxhunt, frantic, frontal, fronted, fronter, frontes, fronton, fulgent, functor, funnest, fustian, futzing, gifting, hafting, hefting, indraft, infanta, infante, infants, infarct, infects, infests, infight, inflate, inflect, inflict, infract, ingraft, introfy, kaftans, lifting, liftman, liftmen, lofting, niftier, nifties, niftily, nitrify, nonfact, oftener, outfawn, outfind, pontiff, rafting, ratfink, refront, rifting, sifting, snifter, softens, stiffen, sunfast, tailfan, tankful, teenful, tenfold, tiffany, tiffing, tiffins, tinfoil, tinfuls, tufting, tuneful, turfing, turfman, turfmen, turnoff, unfaith, unfitly, unshift, upfront, wafting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4E 46 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- -. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T N F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004E 0046 |
| 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)544840 |
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