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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cryptic mean? 

• CRYPTIC (adjective)
  The adjective CRYPTIC has 3 senses:

1. of an obscure nature

2. having a secret or hidden meaning

3. having a puzzling terseness

  Familiarity information: CRYPTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYPTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of an obscure nature

Synonyms:

cryptic; cryptical; deep; inscrutable; mysterious; mystifying

Context example:

rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands

Similar:

incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a secret or hidden meaning

Synonyms:

cabalistic; cryptic; cryptical; kabbalistic; qabalistic; sibylline

Context example:

thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements

Similar:

esoteric (confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a puzzling terseness

Context example:

a cryptic note

Similar:

concise (expressing much in few words)

 Context examples 

TERT572Y is the optimized variant of the native cryptic peptide TERT572 in which tyrosine has been substituted for an arginine at position 1; TERT572Y shows increased HLA-A*0201 binding affinity compared to TERT572.

(HLA-A*0201 Restricted TERT(572Y)/TERT(572) Peptides Vaccine Vx-001, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a cryptic rearrangement of chromosome 1q that fuses the 5' portion of the NTRK1 gene to the 3' end of the TPM3.

(NTRK1/TPM3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cryptic protein, plays a role in intercellular signaling pathways during vertebrate embryogenesis and cellular growth.

(CFC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Epitope spreading (ES) involves an increased presentation of cryptic epitopes on one protein (intermolecular ES) or dominant epitopes on neighboring molecules (intramolecular ES).

(Epitope Spreading, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypo-glycosylation exposes the normally cryptic tandem peptide repeats in cancer-associated mucin, thereby allows antigen-antibody interaction with MUC-1 antibody.

(Anti-MUC-1 Monoclonal Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

The epitopes on denatured collagen bound by this antibody are considered cryptic because, in vivo, they are accessible only on the subendothelial basement membrane of tumors or in normal tissues undergoing neovascularization.

(Anti-Denatured Collagen Monoclonal Antibody TRC093, NCI Thesaurus)

Antimoniotungstate is a mineral condensed ion with a cryptic structure.

(Antimoniotungstate, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronic myelogenous leukemia which does not have the characteristic t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) translocation but it has either a variant translocation or a cryptic translocation that can not be detected by conventional cytogenetic analysis.

(Philadelphia Chromosome Negative, BCR-ABL1 Positive Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Subcutaneous injection of TERT(572Y) peptide followed by subcutaneous administration of the TERT(572) peptide may elicit a specific and possibly optimal cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response against hTERT-expressing tumor cells. hTERT, the catalytic subunit of human telomerase, is an human leukocyte antigen-A*0201-restricted cryptic epitope of telomerase.

(HLA-A*0201 Restricted TERT(572Y)/TERT(572) Peptides Vaccine Vx-001, NCI Thesaurus)