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Definition: Melanocyte |
MelanocyteNoun1. A cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Melanocyte |
| English words defined with "melanocyte": melanoblast. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "melanocyte": melanoblasts. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Investigating the mechanisms of melanocyte migration in fetal life and in metastases. (references) | |
The essence of the problem in defining the significance of nevi with architectural disorder seems to rest in the degree of melanocyte nuclear atypia in the lesion required for the histologic diagnosis. (references) | ||
Two other cells of the epidermis are also affected by UVR. The melanocyte, with its melanin pigment-containing melanosomes, is the primary cell involved in photoprotection of the skin. In sun-damaged epidermis, these cells enlarge, increase in number, and migrate to higher levels of the epidermis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Melanocyte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Melanocyte" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "melanocyte": melanocyte-specific, Melanocyte-stimulating, melanocyte-stimulating hormone. | |
| 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 |
hormone melanocyte stimulating | 12 |
melanocyte | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "melanocyte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | melanocyt (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | melanodendrocyt (melanophore), melanocyt (chromatophore, melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | melanosyytti (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | mélanophore (melanophore), mélanodendrocyte (melanophore), mélanocyte (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Melanozyt (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μελανοκύτταρο (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elanocytemay melanocito (melanophore). (various references) melanocyt (melanophore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "melanocyte": melanocytes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-t-y" | |
-3 letters: acetone, acolyte, amylene, anolyte, cementa, clement, lactone, latency, lomenta, omental, telamon, teleman. | |
-4 letters: acetyl, camlet, cantle, cement, cenote, cental, cetane, cleome, coatee, comate, comely, cymene, enamel, enlace, etalon, etymon, lament, lancet, lateen, laymen, lemony, locate, loment, mantel, mantle, meanly, meetly, melton, menace, mental, molten, motley, mycele, namely, neatly, octane, oleate, omelet, omenta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-t-y" | |
+1 letter: melanocytes. | |
+2 letters: pinealectomy. | |
+3 letters: adrenalectomy, complementary, laryngectomee. | |
+4 letters: cholestyramine, commensurately, electrodynamic, laryngectomees, laryngectomies, malcontentedly. | |
+5 letters: cholestyramines, complementarily, complementarity, contemplatively, econometrically, electrodynamics, geomagnetically, laryngectomized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6C 61 6E 6F 63 79 74 65 |
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