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CF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does CF mean?
• CF (noun)
The noun CF has 2 senses:
1. a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
2. the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
Familiarity information: CF used as a noun is rare.
• CF (adverb)
The adverb CF has 1 sense:
1. compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)
Familiarity information: CF used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
atomic number 98; californium; Cf
Hypernyms ("Cf" is a kind of...):
metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
CF; cystic fibrosis; fibrocystic disease of the pancreas; mucoviscidosis; pancreatic fibrosis
Hypernyms ("CF" is a kind of...):
monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)
fibrosis (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)
Synonyms:
cf; cf.
Context examples
Today, with improved treatments, some people who have CF are living into their forties, fifties, or older.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Activation of CFs, which make multiple synaptic contacts on proximal dendrites, also via AMPA receptors, opens voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) and causes a generalized influx of calcium.
(Long-Term Depression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
In this mouse model, cleft palate formation can be induced by cortisone while alloxan treatment induces diabetes in a high percentage of CF-1 mice.
(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
Although there is no cure for CF, treatments have improved greatly in recent years.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
The CF-1 mouse has an albino coat with genotype c and is used as a multi-purpose strain for a variety of applications including infectious disease modeling, embryological studies, and safety and efficacy testing.
(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
Cerebellar long-term depression (LTD), thought to be a molecular and cellular basis for cerebellar learning, is a process involving a decrease in the synaptic strength between parallel fiber (PF) and Purkinje cells (PCs) induced by the conjunctive activation of PFs and climbing fiber (CF).
(Long-Term Depression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The symptoms and severity of CF vary widely.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
CF causes your mucus to be thick and sticky.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease of the mucus and sweat glands.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Until the 1980s, most deaths from CF occurred in children and teenagers.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
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