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Definition: Trophoblast |
TrophoblastNoun1. The membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall; "after implantation of the blastocyst in the uterine wall the trophoblast divides into two layers, the chorion and the placenta". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The outer layer of cells of the blastocyst which works its way into the endometrium during ovum implantation and grows rapidly, later combining with mesoderm. (references) |
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Crosswords: Trophoblast |
| English words defined with "trophoblast": trophoblastic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trophoblast": Pregnancy-Specific beta 1-Glycoprotein. (references) |
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| "Trophoblast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trophoblast" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
trophoblast | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trophoblast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | trofoblast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trofoblast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trofoblasti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | trophoblaste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Trophoblast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροφοβλάστη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ophoblasttray trofoblasto. (various references) trofoblast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trophoblast": trophoblastic, trophoblasts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: bootstrap. | |
-3 letters: barstool, postoral, stolport, taproots, tarboosh. | |
-4 letters: barhops, borstal, harlots, hooplas, hotspot, patrols, portals, potshot, robalos, taproot, throats. | |
-5 letters: abhors, aborts, barhop, bathos, bhoots, bloats, bloops, blotto, boarts, booths, borals, borsht, broths, harlot, hoopla, labors, lotahs, lottos, oblast, orlops, ottars, parols, pastor, pathos, patrol, pharos, photos, polars, portal, postal, potash, potato, pottos, ralphs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: trophoblasts. | |
+2 letters: trophoblastic. | |
+3 letters: thromboplastic, thromboplastin. | |
+4 letters: thromboplastins. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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