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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A molecule that contains both protein and glycosaminoglycans, which are a type of polysaccharide. Proteoglycans are found in cartilage and other connective tissues. (references) |
Medicine | A substance released by astrocytes, which is critical in stopping nervous fibres in their tracks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PROTEOGLYCAN |
| Specialty definitions using "PROTEOGLYCAN": Platelet Factor 4 ♦ Stromelysin 1. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PROTEOGLYCAN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROTEOGLYCAN" is used about 17 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% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PROTEOGLYCAN": Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PROTEOGLYCAN": proteoglycan-bound, proteoglycan-immobilized. | |
Ending with "PROTEOGLYCAN": heparan-sulphate-proteoglycan. | |
| 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 |
proteoglycan | 6 |
glycosaminoglycan proteoglycan | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROTEOGLYCAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | proteoglycan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | proteoglycaan. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | proteoglycane. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Proteoglykane. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | proteoglicano. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oteoglycanpray proteoglicano. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROTEOGLYCAN": proteoglycans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-l-n-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: colportage. | |
-3 letters: cognately, gyroplane, necrology, operantly, petrology. | |
-4 letters: aerology, aglycone, areology, calotype, calypter, cartoony, category, cetology, cogently, colorant, conepatl, coparent, copatron, coronate, ecotonal, enactory, gantlope, gonocyte, logotype, octangle, octonary, ornately, patronly, pectoral, penology, playgoer, plectron, portance, prolonge, yearlong. | |
-5 letters: acolyte, acrogen, agentry, aglycon, angerly, anolyte, aplenty, apology, caloyer, caltrop, carpool, cartoon, central, clanger, clangor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-l-n-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: proteoglycans. | |
+4 letters: organoleptically. | |
+5 letters: micropaleontology, morphogenetically. | |
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