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Any substance resembling starch
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amyloid
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Amyloid: the Journal of Protein Folding Disorders is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research and review articles on all aspects of the protein groups and associated disorders that are classified as amyloidoses as well as other ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling starch [syn: starchlike , amylaceous , amyloidal , farinaceous ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amyloid \Am"y*loid\, Amyloidal \Am`y*loid"al\, a. [L. amylum starch + -oid.] Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Containing or resembling starch. 2 (context mycology English) Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent. n. 1 A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis. 2 ...
Usage examples of amyloid.
Cannibalistic behavior predates by decades the appearance of all disease symptoms, and by inference, the appearance of amyloid plaque lesions in the brain tissue.
The cells represented in division B are amyloid concretions, found where there is an enlarged prostate gland.
One of them even showed me his lab, where they were doing all kinds of chemical experiments on the amyloid beta protein and a number of other things.
Its power of supporting life and maintaining the weight and composition of the body remains unaltered, whether it contains fats or amyloids or not.
From what has been said, it will readily be seen that whether an animal be carnivorous or herbivorous, it begins to starve as soon as its vital food-stuffs consist only of amyloids, or fats, or both.
The universal practice of subsisting on a mixed diet, in which proteids are mixed with fats or amyloids, is therefore justifiable.
Anyhow, no more amyloids in the perivascular spaces— if that makes any sense to you—the old liver and spleen are back to normal size and I can feel that.
Anyhow, no more amyloids in the peri vascular spacesif that makes any sense to youthe old liver and spleen are back to normal size and I can feel that.