Antonyms for amyloid
ˈæm əˌlɔɪdamy·loid

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1. amyloidnoun

   a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch

   Antonyms:
   starchless

2. amyloidadjective

   (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue

   Antonyms:
   starchless

3. starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceousadjective

   resembling starch

   Antonyms:
   starchless

   Synonyms:
   granulose, mealy, granular, farinaceous, starchlike, amylaceous, gritty, amyloidal, coarse-grained, grainy

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. amyloid

   Synonyms:
   Beta-fibrillosis

How to use amyloid in a sentence?

1. Doug Williamson:

   Increasingly, there are imaging technologies that allow you to look at deposited amyloid plaque and even deposited tau in the brain.

2. Rudy Tanzi:

   The most interesting aspect of the study is that APOE4 differentiated women from men, it's possible that APOE4 either increases amyloid burden in women more than men. Or, perhaps, once amyloid accumulates, it leads to a fast cascade of pathology and neurodegenration in women versus men.

3. Rudy Tanzi:

   I like to say the amyloid is like the match, and the tangles are like brush fires that propagate and spread over decades, and along the way you're triggering big forest fires, that's neuroinflammation.

4. James Pickett:

   Increasingly, research shows us that while amyloid plays an important part in Alzheimer's, it's not the only issue.

5. Aaron Kesselheim:

   The FDA is totally switching gears over the last six months and approving this drug on the basis of a theory relating to the surrogate marker of amyloid plaques that we, as an advisory committee back in November, were told to not consider, if The FDA allows companies to get drugs approved on the basis of trials that are stopped early, trials that are reanalyzed, that sets a precedent.

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