Amyloid Definition

ămə-loid
noun
A starchy food or substance.
Webster's New World
A hard waxy deposit consisting of protein and polysaccharides that results from the degeneration of tissue.
American Heritage
A nearly transparent, waxy deposit resulting from degeneration of bodily tissues: a complex protein.
Webster's New World
A starchlike substance.
American Heritage Medicine
An insoluble, fibrous structure consisting chiefly of an aggregation of proteins arranged in beta sheets, forming extracellular deposits in organs or tissues and characteristic of certain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
American Heritage Medicine
adjective
Starchlike.
American Heritage
Starchlike.
American Heritage Medicine
Being or related to proteinaceous amyloid.
Amyloid plaque.
American Heritage Medicine
Starchlike.
American Heritage Science

Containing or resembling starch.

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Other Word Forms of Amyloid

Noun

Singular:
amyloid
Plural:
amyloids

Origin of Amyloid

  • From amyl +‎ -oid.

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Amyloid Sentence Examples

  • Quite likely the amyloid may be a combination of the substance with a proteid.

  • Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

  • The hyaline material, unlike the amyloid, does not give the metachromatic staining reactions with methyleneviolet or iodine.

  • The wax-like or amyloid substance has a certain resemblance to the colloid, mucoid and hyaline.

  • The name "amyloid " was applied to it by Virchow on account of the blue reaction which it gives occasionally with iodine and sulphuric acid, resembling that given with vegetable cellulose.

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Words Starting With

AAMAMY

Words Ending With

DIDOID

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