Synonyms 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

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

   Antonyms:
   starchless

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1. amyloid

   Synonyms:
   Beta-fibrillosis

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1. Francesca Cordeiro:

   Curcumin is fluorescent, if Francesca Cordeiro put the correct wavelength to it, it fluoresces, and it binds to the parts that are implicated in Alzheimer's, the beta amyloid plaque.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Gillian Coughlan:

   Most of the associations we saw between menopause and tau protein occurred in the context of high amyloid, now a large portion of the older population do accumulate amyloid as they get older — it’s not that uncommon.

5. Tara Spires-Jones:

   Further, females had higher tau burden than males when they also have amyloid pathology in the brain.