Macrophage

Definition: Macrophage

Macrophage

Noun

1. A large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream.

Specialty Definitions: Macrophage

Domain	Definitions
Health	A type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganisms, removes dead cells, and stimulates the action of other immune system cells. (references)
Medicine	Cell, derived from the reticuloendothelial system, that functions in phagocytosis and that is also believed to function in the formation of antibodies. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Macrophage

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
MAF	English	Macrophage activating factor	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Macrophage

English words defined with "macrophage": histiocyte. (references)

Specialty definitions using "macrophage": Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity ♦ Chemotactic Factors, Macrophage, Colony-Stimulating Factors ♦ Genes, fms, Granulocyte Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factors, Recombinant ♦ Interferons, Interleukin-1 ♦ Macrophage Activation, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1, Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins, Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors, Macrophage-Activating Factors ♦ Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Macrophage

Domain	Title
Books	Immunobiology of the macrophage (reference) MacRophage Plasma Membrane Receptors: Structure and Function (Journal of Cell Science 1988: Supplement 9) (reference) T-Cell Signaling of MacRophage Activation: Cell Contact-Dependent and Cytokine Signals (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit) (reference) The Macrophage (reference) The Macrophage in neoplasia (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Macrophage (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Macrophage

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The binding prompts the macrophage to release interleukins that allow the T cell to mature. (references)
		One type of macrophage, the perivascular cell, may also mediate damage to the endothelial cells that line blood vessels. (references)
		An antigen-presenting cell (for example, a macrophage) with a foreign antigen on its MHC is recognized by a T-cell receptor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Macrophage

"Macrophage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.79% of the time. "Macrophage" is used about 33 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)	78.79%	26	68,323
Noun (proper)	9.09%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	6.06%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.06%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	33	N/A

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

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Expressions: Macrophage

Expressions using "macrophage": Macrophage Activation ♦ Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor ♦ Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1 ♦ Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins ♦ Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "macrophage": Macrophage-1, Macrophage-1 Antigen, Macrophage-Activating, Macrophage-Activating Factors, macrophage-colony, macrophage-like, macrophage-type.
	Ending with "macrophage": Granulocyte-Macrophage, monocyte-macrophage.
	Containing "macrophage": Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Macrophage

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
chlorite immune macrophage	46
macrophage	36
erythropoietin liver macrophage	4
macrophage activation	4
lung macrophage	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Macrophage

Language		Translations for "macrophage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		巨噬细胞. (various references)

Danish		makrofag (histiocyte). (various references)

Dutch		makrofaag. (various references)

Finnish		makrofagi. (various references)

French		macrophage. (various references)

German		Makrophage (histiocyte). (various references)

Greek		μακρογάγο. (various references)

Italian		macrofago (histiocyte). (various references)

Pig Latin		acrophagemay.(various references)

Portuguese		macrófago. (various references)

Spanish		macrófago. (various references)

Swedish		makrofag. (various references)

Turkish		makrofag. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Macrophage

Derivations
	Words beginning with "macrophage": macrophages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Macrophage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accrochage, macrophagy, mactophage, Micropage, necrophaga. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Macrophage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-m-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: amphorae, echogram.
	-3 letters: amphora, camphor, champer, chomper, compare, homager, poacher, rampage.
	-4 letters: agorae, apache, caeoma, camera, camper, carhop, charge, cheapo, chorea, chroma, chrome, coprah, eparch, gherao, gopher, graham, hamper, homage, ochrea, ohmage, orache, paramo, pomace, preach, raphae.
	-5 letters: aargh, agape, agora, apace, areca, aroma, cager, cameo, campo, caper, cargo, carom, champ, chape, chare, charm, cheap, chemo, chomp, chore, comae, comer, coper, copra, cramp, crape, cream, ephor, epoch, gamer, gaper, gerah, grace, grama, gramp, grape, graph, grope, harem, herma, homer, hoper, macer, mache, macho, macro, mahoe, march, marge, mocha, moper, morae, morph, ocher, ochre, ocrea, ogham, omega, opera, orach, pacer, pacha, pager, parae, parch, pareo, parge, pargo, peach, perch, phage, poach, porch, praam, proem, raphe, reach, recap, regma, remap, roach.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-m-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: macrophages.
	+3 letters: cinematograph, demographical, encephalogram.
	+4 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, encephalograms, metallographic, pharmacologies.
	+5 letters: chromatographed, chromatographer, cinematographer, cinematographic, demographically, pharmacognosies, rechromatograph.
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