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Definition: Cofactor |
CofactorNoun1. A substance (as a coenzyme) that must join with another to produce a given result. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A substance, microorganism or environmental factor that activates or enhances the action of another entity such as a disease-causing agent. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A molecule with which certain enzymes must combine in order to be functionally active. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cofactor |
| Specialty definitions using "cofactor": 15-Oxoprostaglandin 13-Reductase ♦ Factor Va, Factor VIIIa, Factor XIa, Factor XIIa ♦ nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate ♦ Protein S, Pyruvate Decarboxylase ♦ Serpins ♦ Thrombomodulin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cofactor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (cofactor). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Exploration of the role of M. pneumoniae in community-acquired pneumonia and as a potential cofactor in severe pneumonia. (references) | |
Both forms of hyperphenylalaninemia, which account for the vast majority of cases, are autosomal recessive disorders caused by mutations in the PAH gene. Rarely, mutations in other genes that are necessary for the synthesis or recycling of the tetrahydrobiopterin cofactor of PAH also result in hyperphenylalaninemia, but will not be addressed in this consensus statement. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cofactor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cofactor" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cofactor": Heparin Cofactor II. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
cofactor | 7 |
cofactor matrix | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cofactor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辅助 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | co-faktor, cofaktor, medvirkende faktor (aggravating factor, causal factor), kofaktor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | co-factor, cofactor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kofaktori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cofacteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Cofaktor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπαράγοντας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | co-fattore, cofattore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 共同 子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうどうい"し. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofactorcay cofactor. (various references) cofactor. (various references) kofaktor. (various references) ปัจจัยที่เกิ"ร่วม. (various references) eşçarpan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cofactor": cofactors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-f-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: coactor. | |
-2 letters: factor. | |
-3 letters: actor, afoot, coact, cocoa, craft, croft, taroc. | |
-4 letters: arco, cart, coat, coca, coco, coft, coof, coot, corf, croc, fact, faro, fart, foot, fora, fort, frat, orca, raft, rato, roof, root, rota, roto, taco, taro, tora, torc, toro. | |
-5 letters: act, aft, arc, arf, art, car, cat, coo, cor, cot, far, fat, for. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-f-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cofactors. | |
+3 letters: confiscator, flocculator. | |
+4 letters: confiscators, confiscatory, flocculators. | |
+5 letters: confectionary, cornification. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 66 61 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- ..-. .- -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o f a c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0066 0061 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
| 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)3781726769868184 |
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