Definitions for amyloid

amyloid am·y·loid

Spelling: [am-uh-loid]
IPA: /ˈæm əˌlɔɪd/

Amyloid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in amyloid (adilmoy).

Definitions for amyloid

noun

  1. Biochemistry. a waxy, translucent substance, composed primarily of protein fibers, that is deposited in various organs of animals in certain diseases.
  2. a nonnitrogenous food consisting especially of starch.

adjective

  1. Also, amyloidal. of, resembling, or containing amylum.

Origin of amyloid

First recorded in 1855-60; amyl- + -oid

Examples for amyloid

If any of these got prioritized and funded to the extent of amyloid, we might be a lot closer to getting a drug than we are now.

However, it has been rendered probable that the amyloid deposit has close affinities with fibrin.

As is well known, the amyloid material itself resists the action of the gastric juice.

In this respect pathologists are agreed: that the amyloid deposits first appear in the walls of the vessels.

amyloid degeneration of the blood-vessels is a doubtful cause of hemorrhage.

The liver, besides the change due to cirrhosis, may be affected by amyloid or fatty degeneration, or by both combined.

He records three cases in which the amyloid deposits ensued in six, five, and three months, respectively.

The corpora amylacea, so called, differ materially from starch-granules, and still more from the amyloid matter.

Lardaceous (amyloid or waxy) degeneration of the intestinal mucous membrane is met with in chronic catarrh.

Amylaceous, amyloid, composed of starch (amylum), or starch-like.

Word Value for amyloid
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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