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T-PA

Specialty Definition: T-PA

DomainDefinition

Medicine

A plasminogen activator produced by the host organism, in contrast to artificial plasminogen activators, such as streptokinase and urokinase. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: T-PA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

t-PA

ItalianAttivatore tissutale del plasminogenoN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Non-Fiction Usage: T-PA

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In the two-part NINDS trial, patients received either intravenous t-PA or a placebo within 3 hours of the initial symptoms of a stroke. (references)

The NINDS rt-PA Stroke Study showed the efficacy of t-PA and in 1996 led to the first FDA-approved treatment for acute ischemic stroke. (references)

A CT scan, blood tests, and informed consent were obtained prior to t-PA administration to rule out hemorrhagic stroke and to exclude patients who did not meet the inclusion criteria. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: T-PA

"T-PA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "T-PA" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Modern Translation: T-PA

Language Translations for "T-PA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

plasminogeenin aktivaattori (tissue plasminogen activator, tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

French

  

TPA, plasminogene proactiveur de tissus, Activase. (various references)

   

German

  

Gewebe-Plasmin-Aktivator (tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιστικός ενεργοποιητής του πλασμινογόνου (tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

Italian

  

TPA (tissue-type plasminogen activator), attivatore plasminogenico dei tessuti (tissue-type plasminogen activator), attivatore del plasminogeno dei tessuti (tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

activador de tipo tecidular do plasminogéneo (tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

activador tisular del plasminógeno (tissue-type plasminogen activator), activador hístico del plasminógeno (tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tPA (tissue plasminogen activator, tissue-type plasminogen activator), vävnads-plasmin-aktivator (tissue plasminogen activator, tissue-type plasminogen activator), vävnadsaktivator (tissue plasminogen activator, tissue-type plasminogen activator). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: T-PA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: apt, pat, tap.

Words within the letters "a-p-t"

-1 letter: at, pa, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-p-t"
 

+1 letter: atap, atop, pact, pant, part, past, pate, path, pats, paty, peat, phat, pita, plat, prat, rapt, spat, tamp, tapa, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, trap.

 

+2 letters: adapt, adept, adopt, apart, aport, apter, aptly, ataps, atopy, atrip, caput, chapt, clapt, coapt, epact, etape, expat, inapt, kaput, leapt, lepta, pacts, paint, palet, panto, pants, panty, parts, party, pasta, paste, pasts, pasty, patch, pated, paten, pater, pates, paths, patin, patio, patly, patsy, patty, peart, peats, peaty, petal, pieta, pinta, pitas, plait, plant, plate, plats, platy, pleat, prate, prats, pruta, septa, spait, spate, spats, splat, sprat, sputa, stamp, staph, strap, stupa, tamps, tapas, taped, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, taupe, tepal, tepas, topaz, tramp, traps, trapt, typal, unapt, watap, wrapt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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