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ENDOCYTOSIS

Specialty Definition: ENDOCYTOSIS

DomainDefinition

Health

Cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles. Endosomes play a central role in endocytosis. (references)

Medicine

Capacity of the cell to form food vacuoles. This parameter is a sensitive measure of the physiological state of the cell. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: ENDOCYTOSIS

Specialty definitions using "ENDOCYTOSIS": AsialoglycoproteinsCaveolaeReceptors, Lipoprotein. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ENDOCYTOSIS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Endocytosis (reference)

  • Endocytosis (Frontiers in Molecular Biology) (reference)

  • Endocytosis and Exocytosis (reference)

  • Endocytosis, Exocytosis and Vesicle Traffic in Plants (Seminar Series/Society for Experimental Biology, No. 45) (reference)

  • Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ENDOCYTOSIS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Entry into host cells is thought to occur by attachment of virions to cellular receptors and subsequent endocytosis. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: ENDOCYTOSIS

"ENDOCYTOSIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ENDOCYTOSIS" is used about 15 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
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ENDOCYTOSIS

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

endocytosis

23

endocytosis exocytosis

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ENDOCYTOSIS

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

Danish

  

endocytose. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

endocytose. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

endosytoosi. (various references)

   

French

  

endocytose. (various references)

   

German

  

Endozytose, Endocytose. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενδοκύτωση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

endocitosi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

endocytosisay

   

Portuguese

  

endocitose. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

endocitosis. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

endocytos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ENDOCYTOSIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-o-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: consisted, cytosines.

-3 letters: cestoids, conioses, coonties, cysteins, cystines, cystoids, cytosine, dystonic, ecdysons, isotones, nodosity, osteoids, sections, syndetic.

-4 letters: cession, cestoid, codeins, coedits, condoes, conoids, consist, coontie, cooties, cosiest, cosines, coyness, coyotes, ctenoid, cystein, cystine, cystoid, density, deontic, destiny, dissect, dissent, docents, ecdysis, ecdyson, encysts, incests, insects, isodose, isotone, nosiest, nostocs, noticed, notices, oocysts.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-o-s-s-t-y"
 

+3 letters: disconsolately.

 

+4 letters: hydrocortisones.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENDOCYTOSIS


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

45 4E 44 4F 43 59 54 4F 53 49 53

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)

.    -.    -..    ---    -.-.    -.--.    -    ---    ...    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001110 01000100 01001111 01000011 01011001 01010100 01001111 01010011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#68 &#79 &#67 &#89 &#84 &#79 &#83 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0044 004F 0043 0059 0054 004F 0053 0049 0053

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

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

3948384937595449534353

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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