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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A spherical particle in an aqueous medium, formed by a lipid bilayer enclosing an aqueous compartment. (references) |
Medicine | Microscopic phospholipid vesicles used as drug carriers. Liposomes are composed of naturally occurring phospholipids and are nonimmunogenic and biodegradable. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "LIPOSOME" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "LIPOSOME" is used about 14 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) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | The Liposome Company, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LIPOSOME": liposome-mediated, liposome-system. | |
| 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 |
liposome | 94 |
the liposome company | 8 |
glucosamine liposome now | 4 |
delivery drug liposome lung | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LIPOSOME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | liposom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | liposoom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liposomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | liposome (?), liposome. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Liposom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιπόσωμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | liposoma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iposomelay lipossoma, liposoma. (various references) liposoma. (various references) liposom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LIPOSOME": liposomes. (additional references) | |
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"LIPOSOME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ileostom, Lepisma, liposomal, liposomes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LIPOSOME" (pronounced li"pusō'm) |
| 4 | -u s ō' m | chromosome. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: pomelos. | |
-2 letters: impels, impose, looies, molies, osmole, pilose, poleis, polies, polios, pomelo, simple. | |
-3 letters: impel, limes, limos, limps, looie, looms, loops, loose, lopes, miles, milos, moils, moles, mools, moose, mopes, oleos, olios, osmol, piles, plies, poems, poise, poles, polio, polis, polos, pomes, pools, slime, slipe, sloop, slope, smile, solei, speil, spiel, spile, spoil. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: liposomes, picomoles. | |
+2 letters: metropolis, monopolies, monopolise, pomologies. | |
+3 letters: biopolymers, completions, complexions, compositely, cosmopolite, homoplasies, megalopolis, monophylies, monopolised, monopolises, monopolizes, peroxisomal, pleochroism, polemoniums, scopolamine. | |
+4 letters: anemophilous, cosmopolises, cosmopolites, epistemology, heliotropism, lampooneries, laparotomies, metropolises, monopolizers, morphologies, phlebotomies, phlebotomist, pleochroisms, pleomorphism, polychromies, polyribosome, scopolamines. | |
+5 letters: amphibologies, campanologies, compellations, compendiously, complexations, compressional, copolymerizes, entomophilies, entomophilous, heliotropisms, megalopolises, metropolitans, phlebotomists, pleomorphisms, poikilotherms, poliomyelitis, polychotomies, polyribosomes, primatologies, thermophilous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Usage Frequency 3. Names: Company Usage 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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