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Meaning of "nucleolus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NUCLEOLUS

From Latin, diminutive of nucleus.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NUCLEOLUS

nucleolus  [ˌnjuːklɪˈəʊləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NUCLEOLUS

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nucleolus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NUCLEOLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nucleolus

The nucleolus is a structure found in the nucleus of cells. It forms around specific chromosomal regions in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, and is made up of proteins and ribonucleic acids. Its function is to transcribe ribosomal RNA and combine it with proteins to form incomplete ribosomes. The nucleolus occupies up to about 25% of the volume of the cell nucleus. Malfunction of nucleoli can be the cause of several human diseases.

Definition of nucleolus in the English dictionary

The definition of nucleolus in the dictionary is a small rounded body within a resting nucleus that contains RNA and proteins and is involved in the production of ribosomes Also called: nucleole.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NUCLEOLUS


bolas
ˈbəʊləs
bolus
ˈbəʊləs
calculus
ˈkælkjʊləs
echoless
ˈɛkəʊləs
electroless
ɪˈlɛktrəʊləs
fabulous
ˈfæbjʊləs
gladiolus
ˌɡlædɪˈəʊləs
holus-bolus
ˈhəʊləsˈbəʊləs
luteolous
ˌluːtɪˈəʊləs
modiolus
məʊˈdaɪəʊləs
neutrinoless
njuːˈtriːnəʊləs
pholas
ˈfəʊləs
ridiculous
rɪˈdɪkjʊləs
semisolus
ˌsɛmɪˈsəʊləs
snowless
ˈsnəʊləs
solus
ˈsəʊləs
stimulus
ˈstɪmjʊləs
tholus
ˈθəʊləs
tobaccoless
təˈbækəʊləs
toeless
ˈtəʊləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NUCLEOLUS

nucleocapsid
nucleoid
nucleolar
nucleolate
nucleolated
nucleole
nucleoli
nucleon
nucleon number
nucleonic
nucleonically
nucleonics
nucleophile
nucleophilic
nucleophilicity
nucleoplasm
nucleoplasmatic
nucleoplasmic
nucleoprotein
nucleoside

WORDS THAT END LIKE NUCLEOLUS

Aeolus
alveolus
Angelus
bacillus
carolus
cumulus
discobolus
embolus
homunculus
hydrocephalus
malleolus
modulus
nautilus
obolus
Pholus
plus
stylus
surplus
Tellus
urceolus

Synonyms and antonyms of nucleolus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nucleolus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NUCLEOLUS

Find out the translation of nucleolus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nucleolus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nucleolus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

核仁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nucléolo
570 millions of speakers

English

nucleolus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nucleolus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نوية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ядрышко
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nucléolo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nucleoli হয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nucléole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nukleoli
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kernkörperchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

核小体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

핵소체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nukleoli
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nucleolus
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உட்கரு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Nucleoli
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nükleol
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nucleolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jąderko
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ядерце
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nucleoli
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πυρηνίσκου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nukleolus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nucleolus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nucleolus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nucleolus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NUCLEOLUS»

The term «nucleolus» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.334 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NUCLEOLUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nucleolus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUCLEOLUS»

Discover the use of nucleolus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nucleolus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nucleolus
The Nucleolus is divided into three parts: nucleolar structure and organization, the role of the nucleolus in ribosome biogenesis, and novel functions of the nucleolus.
Mark O. J. Olson, 2011
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Proteins of the Nucleolus: Regulation, Translocation, & ...
This book contains 14 original review chapters each yielding new, exciting and intriguing data about the emerging understanding of nucleolar structure and function in normal, stressed and diseased cells.
Danton H O'Day, Andrew Catalano, 2013
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Plant Cell Biology: Structure and Function
Nucleus (2): Nucleolus Introduction: The nucleolus is a characteristic feature of the nuclei of eukaryotic cells. Major constituents are a repeated sequence of genes that code for the RNA of ribosomes, and a mass of the products of their activity.
Brian E. S. Gunning, Martin W. Steer, 1996
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Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on ...
Xiaotie Deng* Xiaoxun Abstract We study the algorithmic issues of finding the nucleolus of a flow game. The flow game is a cooperative game defined on a network D = (V, E;u). The player set is £ and the value of a coalition S C E is defined as ...
SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics, Association for Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2006
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Game Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations ...
As a direct consequence of the corresponding definitions they are self dual, i.e. the solutions of the game and its dual coincide. Sudholter's recent results on the modified nucleolus are surveyed. Moreover, an axiomatization of the modified ...
T. Parthasarathy, 1997
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Game Theory and Public Policy
The nucleolus has the further property that if the core is not null, the nucleolus is an element of it. Thus, the nucleolus can be thought of as a core assignment algorithm; that is, as a basis for singling out a particular imputation in the core when ...
Roger A. McCain, 2009
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Introduction to Animal Cytogenetics
In this chapter we shall focus on just one gene complex, the nucleolus organizer, and examine it closely. The reason behind this strategy is simple. The nucleolus organizer was the first major gene complex to be investigated in detail at the ...
H.C. Macgregor, 1993
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Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants
The detection of these polycistronic precursors in CBs and the nucleolus by in situ hybridisation suggests that processing occurs in both locations and/or that pre-snoRNAs traffic to the nucleolus via CBs (Shaw et al. 1998). The nucleolus is  ...
A. S. N. Reddy, Maxim V. Golovkin, 2008
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Advances in Botanical Research
ABSTRACT The nucleolus is a nuclear substructure that is well known as the ribosome factory of the cell, namely, the site in which the production of mature ribosomal subunits takes place before their export to the cytoplasm. The process  ...
‎2008
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Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease
Studies on nuclear firefly luciferase fused to the heat-stable green fluorescent protein (N-luc-EGFP) have shown that heat in- activation of the luciferase part of N-luc-EGFP results in its translocation to intranuclear granules and the nucleolus.
Matthias Gaestel, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NUCLEOLUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nucleolus is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cell Analysis Instruments Market – Global Industry Size, Trends …
Cell identification helps to identify blood cells on the basis of their size, presence or absence of nucleolus in the cell and shape of nucleolus. «Medgadget.com, Jul 15»
2
Francoeur hits a two-run walk-off to secure sweep for Phillies
He remains the biggest bargaining chip the Phillies have and the prospects the club receives in return could potentially be the nucleolus of the ... «Philadelphia Baseball Review, Jul 15»
3
'Defeat will take a lot of time to digest' - Mathews
ABSOLUTELY without any nucleolus for polarization, how can he cause a division inside the pack ? He never had the due recognition for any ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
4
California woman dies from brain-eating amoeba
... Giemsa-Wright amidst polymorphonuclear leukocytes and a few lymphocytes. Within the trophozoite, the nucleus and nucleolus can be seen. «Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Jul 15»
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Role of p14ARF-HDM2-p53 axis in SOX6-mediated tumor suppression
NPM1 was considered first, as it has been reported to target p14ARF to the nucleolus and to block p14ARF-mediated p53 activation. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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Ruth Elizabeth Martin (1922-2015)
As a wife, mother, sister and grandmother she has been the monarch of her family, the nucleolus. She will be greatly missed by all. As a young ... «Hays Free Press, Jun 15»
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Cell Analysis Instruments Market – Global Industry Analysis and …
Cell identification helps to identify blood cells on the basis of their size, presence or absence of nucleolus in the cell and shape of nucleolus. «Medgadget.com, Jun 15»
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In-cell infection: a novel pathway for Epstein-Barr virus infection …
The internalized lymphocyte underwent cell death inside the vacuole with deformed nucleus and scattered nucleolus, similar to the fate of most ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
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London construction icon honoured at Fanshawe
“Fanshawe was a big part, in a funny way, of EllisDon as their graduates grew through EllisDon's management and became the core nucleolus ... «London Community News, Apr 15»
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Wash: not just for the cytoplasm anymore
The organization of the nucleolus and Cajal bodies, both nuclear organelles, was dispersed in wash mutants. Lastly, the authors found that ... «Fred Hutch News Service, Apr 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Nucleolus [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nucleolus>. May 2024 ».
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