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Basophilic

Definition: Basophilic

Basophilic

Adjective

1. (biology) staining readily with basic dyes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

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Crosswords: Basophilic

English words defined with "basophilic": basophil, basophile. (references)
Specialty definitions using "basophilic": basophilic cellPseudoxanthoma ElasticumRheumatoid Nodule. (references)

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Photo Album: Basophilic

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Blood smear showing Babesia rings in erythrocytes. Some basophilic stippling is present. Protozoon, parasite.Credit: CDC.

Plasmodium vivax ring form trophozoite in erythrocyte that shows basophilic stippling. Parasite.Credit: CDC.

Here we see two infected red blood cells, (RBC), during erythrocytic schizogony. One normal erythrocyte containing one ring (upper right), and another RBC infected with two parasites simultaneously, and revealing basophilic stippling (center).Credit: CDC.

Here we see two infected red blood cells, (RBC), during erythrocytic schizogony. One erythrocyte containing four rings (right), and another RBC (trophozoite) also infected with maturing P. vivax, and revealing basophilic stippling (left).Credit: CDC.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Basophilic

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Note the basophilic (dark blue granules in the inclusion). (references)

With these stains, Negri bodies appear magenta in color and have small (0.2 m to 0.5 m), dark-blue interior basophilic granules. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Basophilic

"Basophilic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Basophilic" is used about 5 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)100%5157,705

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

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Expression: Basophilic

Expression using "basophilic": basophilic cell. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Basophilic

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

basophilic stippling

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Basophilic

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

Chinese 

  

嗜碱 (basophile). (various references)

   

Danish

  

basofil (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

basophiel (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

   

French

  

basophile (basocyte, basophil, basophil leucocyte, basophile, basophilic cell, basophilous). (various references)

   

German

  

basophil (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βασεόφιλο κύτταρο (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

basofilo (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asophilicbay

   

Portuguese

  

outros sintomas da intoxicação pelo chumbo são:a porfirinuria,a granulação basófila dos eritrócitos e/ou o aumento dos reticulócitos (and an increase in the reticulocytes, basophilic stippling of the red blood cells, further symptoms of lead poisoning are : porphyrinuria), foram estabelecidos para os animais os seguintes parâmetros hematológicos:o valor de hematócrito,o número dos glóbulos vermelhos,o número dos glóbulos vermelhos com pontuação basófila (the following haematological parameters have been established in animals; the haematocrite value, the number of red blood corpuscles the number of red blood corpuscles with basophilic puncturing), degenerescência basófila (basic degeneration, basophilic degeneration), degeneração basófila (basic degeneration, basophilic degeneration), constatar a presença de hematias de granulações basófilas na lâmina sanguínea (confirming the presence of the slide of red blood-corpuscles with basophilic stippling). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

basófilo (basophil, basophilous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Basophilic

Misspellings

"Basophilic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Basohli, basophil. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Basophilic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-i-l-o-p-s"

-2 letters: basophil, biochips, biphasic.

-3 letters: abolish, basilic, biochip, biopics, biopsic, caliphs, chablis, ischial, isopach, pachisi, phobias, phobics, scholia.

-4 letters: aiolis, alibis, bialis, biopic, bishop, caliph, chilis, cibols, cobias, copals, ischia, laichs, lichis, lochia, palish, phasic, phials, phobia, phobic, pibals, poisha, polish, sialic, silica, social.

-5 letters: aboil, aioli, alibi, aphis, apish, aspic, bails, basic, basil, biali, blahs, blips, blocs, boils, bolas, calos, caphs, capos, chaos, chaps, chiao, chias, chili, chips, chops, cibol, cilia, claps, clash, clasp, clips, clops, coals, cobia, coils, colas, copal, hails, halos, iliac, laich, laics, lapis, lichi, loach, lochs, obias, ohias, opahs, opals, pails, phial, pibal, pical, picas, pilis, pisco, plash, plica, poach, polis, psoai, sahib, salic, scalp, shoal, spahi, spail, spica, spoil.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-i-i-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: biophysical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Basophilic


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

42 61 73 6F 70 68 69 6C 69 63

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)

01000010 01100001 01110011 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0073 006F 0070 0068 0069 006C 0069 0063

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

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

36678581827475787569

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INDEX

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


  

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