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A nonnitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch
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amyloid
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An amyloid is any of certain insoluble fibrous protein aggregates. Amyloid may also refer to: Amyloid (mycology) , a chemical reaction used in characterization of fungi Amyloid (journal) , the Amyloid: the Journal of Protein Folding Disorders peer-reviewed ...
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a nonnitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"starch-like," 1857, coined in German (1839) from Latin amylum (see amyl ) + Greek-derived suffix -oid . The noun is attested from 1872.
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, ...
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.