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Thrombocyte

Definition: Thrombocyte

Thrombocyte

Noun

1. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Thrombocyte

DomainDefinitions

Public Administration

Platelet: a minute, flattened body. Blood-platelet: one of the minute protoplasmic disks occurring in vertebrate blood, playing a role in blood clotting. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Thrombocyte

Synonyms: blood platelet (n), platelet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Thrombocyte

Non-English Usage: "Thrombocyte" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (thrombocyte).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thrombocyte

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  thrombocyte

5
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Modern Translations: Thrombocyte

Language Translations for "thrombocyte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تخثر (cake, clot, coagulate, congealment, curd, curdle, freeze, gel, thickening, thrombosis). (various references)

   

Danish

  

trombocyt (blood platelet), thrombocyt (blood platelet), blodplade (blood platelet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

trombocyt (blood platelet), thrombocyt (blood platelet), bloedplaatje (blood platelet). (various references)

   

French

  

thrombocyte. (various references)

   

German

  

Thrombozyt (blood platelet), Thromboit (blood platelet), Blutplaettchen (blood platelet), Blutplättchen (blood platelet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αιμοπετάλιο (platelet). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trombocito (blood platelet), trombocita (blood platelet), piastrina (platelet). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombocytethray

   

Portuguese

  

trombócitos funcionalmente intactos (functionally intact thrombocyte). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trombocito (blood platelet), plaqueta (plaquette, platelet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Thrombocyte

Derivations

Words beginning with "thrombocyte": thrombocytes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Thrombocyte

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-m-o-o-r-t-t-y"

-2 letters: boycotter.

-3 letters: botchery, bottomer, bottomry.

-4 letters: betroth, bootery, botcher, boycott, cheroot, homeboy, moocher, mothery, theorbo.

-5 letters: bettor, boomer, botchy, bother, bottom, broche, brooch, broomy, brothy, cherty, chrome, chromo, cohort, comber, cometh, coombe, cooter, corymb, cotter, coyote, embryo, hector, hombre, hooter, hotter, mooter, mother, obtect, ochery, oocyte, reboot, recomb, rochet, rotche, tetchy, theory, tocher, tomboy.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-m-o-o-r-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: thrombocytes.

 

+5 letters: thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Thrombocyte


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 72 6F 6D 62 6F 63 79 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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