Usually means: Protein aggregates causing tissue damage.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word amyloid:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. amyloid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. amyloid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amyloid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amyloid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amyloid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amyloid, -amyloid, amyloid, amyloid-: Wordnik
  7. amyloid: Wiktionary
  8. amyloid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. amyloid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. amyloid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. amyloid: Dictionary.com
  12. Amyloid (disambiguation), Amyloid (mycology), Amyloid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Amyloid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. amyloid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. amyloid: Rhymezone
  16. Amyloid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. amyloid: Free Dictionary
  18. amyloid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. amyloid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. amyloid: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. amyloid: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amyloid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Amyloid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  7. amyloid: Medical dictionary
  8. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Amyloid: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amyloid)

▸ noun:  A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis.
▸ noun:  Any of various starchlike substances.
▸ adjective:  Containing or resembling starch.
▸ adjective:  (mycology) Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent

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amyloidal, amylaceous, starchy, starchlike, amiloid, amylospheroid, amyloidicity, amyloidogenesis, amylome, amyloid beta, more...

Opposite:
non-amyloid, anti-amyloid, amyloidosis-free

Phrases:
amyloid protein, Amyloid plaques, amyloid angiopathy, amyloid beta, beta amyloid, more...

Adjectives:
cerebral, cardiac, primary, beta, secondary, senile, renal, human, vascular, cerebrovascular, familial



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Similar:
amyloidal, amylaceous, starchy, starchlike, amiloid, amylospheroid, amyloidicity, amyloidogenesis, amylome, amyloid beta, more...

Opposite:
non-amyloid, anti-amyloid, amyloidosis-free

Phrases:
amyloid protein, Amyloid plaques, amyloid angiopathy, amyloid beta, beta amyloid, amyloid plaque, amyloid degeneration, amyloid polyneuropathy, amyloid tumor, amyloid bodies, amyloid nephrosis, amyloid kidney, more...

Adjectives:
cerebral, cardiac, primary, beta, secondary, senile, renal, human, vascular, cerebrovascular, familial



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