NEUROPEPTIDE

Specialty Definition: NEUROPEPTIDE

Domain	Definition
Health	A member of a class of protein-like molecules made in the brain. Neuropeptides consist of short chains of amino acids, with some functioning as neurotransmitters and some functioning as hormones. (references)
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Crosswords: NEUROPEPTIDE

Specialty definitions using "NEUROPEPTIDE": Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone ♦ Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide ♦ Gastrin-Releasing Peptide ♦ omega-Agatoxin IVA ♦ Receptors, Neurokinin-2, Receptors, Neuropeptide Y. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEUROPEPTIDE

Domain	Title
Books	Central and Peripheral Significance of Neuropeptide Y and Its Related Peptides (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 611) (reference) CRC Handbook of Comparative Opioid and Related Neuropeptide Mechanisms (reference) Methods in Neurosciences: Neuropeptide Analogs, Conjugates, and Fragments (reference) Neuropeptide influences on the brain and behavior (reference) Neuropeptide Receptors in the CNS (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: NEUROPEPTIDE

"NEUROPEPTIDE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.89% of the time. "NEUROPEPTIDE" is used about 37 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)	91.89%	34	59,261
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.41%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

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

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Expressions: NEUROPEPTIDE

Expressions using "NEUROPEPTIDE": Neuropeptide Y ♦ Neuropeptide Y inhibitor. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEUROPEPTIDE

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
neuropeptide y	9
neuropeptide	3
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Modern Translation: NEUROPEPTIDE

Language		Translations for "NEUROPEPTIDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Neuropeptid-Y-Blocker (Neuropeptide Y inhibitor). (various references)

Italian		inibitore del neuropeptide Y (Neuropeptide Y inhibitor). (various references)

Pig Latin		europeptidenay
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Derivations: NEUROPEPTIDE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "NEUROPEPTIDE": neuropeptides. (additional references)
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Anagrams: NEUROPEPTIDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: outpreened.
	-3 letters: pioneered, preunited, terpenoid.
	-4 letters: deportee, deuteron, dipteron, eruption, inpoured, neutered, oriented, outpreen, peperoni, preunite, propined, proteide, reopened, repented, repetend, retinued, reunited, unripped, untipped.
	-5 letters: denture, detinue, diopter, dioptre, dourine, entered, epidote, epitope, erodent, erudite, erupted, intrude, needier, neuroid, outride, pentode, peptide, peptone, pereion, peridot, perpend, perpent, petered, pioneer, pointed, pointer, portend, pounder.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: neuropeptides.
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