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Definition: Homozygous |
HomozygousAdjective1. (genetics) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: heterozygous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Homozygous |
| English words defined with "homozygous": Cooley's anaemia, Cooley's anemia ♦ thalassaemia major, thalassemia major. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homozygous": Aleutian Mink Disease, Aleutian Mink Disease Virus, Animals, Inbred Strains ♦ beta-Thalassemia ♦ Genes, Dominant, Genes, Recessive ♦ Hemoglobin, Sickle, homozygote, homozygotes ♦ inbred line ♦ Mice, Inbred CFTR, Mice, Inbred HRS, Mice, Inbred mdx, Mice, Nude, Mice, Obese, Mice, Quaking, Mice, SCID ♦ pure line. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | One risk of screening is the anxiety to the family from the discovery of homozygous sickle states. (references) | |
It is unclear whether presymptomatic interventions offer significant advantage to infants with other hemoglobinopathies (e.g., Hb E-beta thalassemia and homozygous beta and alpha thalassemias). (references) | ||
Studies of the potential effect of neonatal diagnosis on management of other hemoglobinopathies (including hemoglobin E-beta thalassemia and homozygous alpha and beta thalassemia) are required. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Homozygous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Homozygous" is used about 47 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
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 |
homozygous | 32 |
fh homozygous | 4 |
homozygous paint sale stallion | 3 |
heterozygous homozygous | 3 |
homozygous horse paint | 3 |
homozygous horse | 2 |
homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homozygous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | homozygotisk, homozygot (homozygote). (various references) | |
Dutch | homozygoot (homozygote), zuiver (pure). (various references) | |
Finnish | homotsygoottinen, homotsygootti (homozygote), samaperintäinen. (various references) | |
French | homozygotique, homozygote (homozygote). (various references) | |
German | homozygot (homozygote), reinerbig (homozygote), gleicherbig (homozygote), gleichanlagig (homozygote), erbrein. (various references) | |
Greek | ομοζύγωτος, ομοζυγώτης (homozygote), ομοζυγωτό (homozygote). (various references) | |
Italian | puro (pure, clean, sheer), omozigote (homozygote). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omozygoushay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homozigoto (homozygote), homozigótico. (various references) | |
Spanish | homocigoto (homozygote), homocigótico. (various references) | |
Swedish | homozygotisk, homozygot (homozygote). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homozygous": homozygously. (additional references) | |
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"Homozygous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homolygous, homozgyous, homozygou. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homozygous" (pronounced hō'mōzī"gus) |
| 5 | -z ī" g u s | heterozygous. |
| 3 | -g u s | analogous, Argus, asparagus, bodegas, bogus, Degas, dingus, esophagus, fungus, homologous, humongous, Negus, sarcophagus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-m-o-o-o-s-u-y-z" | |
-5 letters: goosy, gushy, homos, mousy, mozos, mushy, ouzos, shoyu, sough, soyuz, yoghs, zooms. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-m-o-o-o-s-u-y-z" | |
+2 letters: homozygously. | |
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