Crossword-Solution: AMYLOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amyloid | a. | Alt. of Amyloidal |
| Amyloid | n. | A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance. |
| Amyloid | n. | The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration. |
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| TISSUE degeneration, type of | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with AMYLOID (5)
Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; Ð called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.
Degeneration of the muscular tissue: Muscular Rheumatism, Sciatica or Nerve Rheumatism, Atrophia, Amyloid heart, kidney and liver.
Amyloid degeneration is often combined with wasting diseases, such as atrophy, tuberculosis and dropsy.
The membrane also contains an amyloid substance, amylomycin.[8] Many of the chemical constituents found in the entire class are given in _Die Pflanzenstoffe_.[9] Under the _Schizomycetes_ to which the _Micrococcus_ and _Bacterium_[10] belong are found minute organisms differing much in form and in the coloring[11] matters they produce, as that causing the red color of mouldy bread.
The cells represented in division B are amyloid concretions, found where there is an enlarged prostate gland.
Quotes with AMYLOID (2)
Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities.