a Korean dish of rice , saut éed and seasoned vegetables, and hot pepper paste Ana definition, a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject, person, place, or thing. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020C16: via Medieval Latin from Greek: of every one similarlyCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition Copyright © 2010 by Anticipation and rain check are among the most frequently looked-up words in July Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 Antinuclear antibodies are autoantibodies that bind to contents of the cell nucleus. All the latest wordy news, linguistic insights, offers and competitions every month. Eat Out to Help Out: the new scheme for UK restaurants An ANA test detects antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in your blood. And best of all it's ad free, so sign up now and start using at home or in the classroom. Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary All rights reserved. Copyright © 2010 by a prefix in loanwords from Greek, where it means “up,” “against,” “back,” “re-”: a suffix that forms collective nouns denoting an assembly of items, as household objects, art, books, or maps, or a description of such items, as a bibliography, all of which are representative of or associated with the place, person, or period named by the stem: (of ingredients in a prescription) in equal quantitiesa collection of reminiscences, sketches, etc, of or about a person or placea name for anorexia, esp when used as a personification of the disease by its sufferersa person who identifies himself or herself as an anorexicArticle Number Association: (in Britain) an organization of manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers that provides a system (denoting a collection of objects or information relating to a particular individual, subject, or placeBoth in the same quantity; of each.

There are many subtypes of ANAs such as anti-Ro antibodies, anti-La antibodies, anti-Sm antibodies, anti-nRNP antibodies, anti-Scl-70 antibodies, anti-dsDNA antibodies, anti-histone antibodies, antibodies to nuclear pore complexes, anti-centro The online version of the Collins Dictionary has just been updated again, with another batch of words being allowed in for the first time. To perform the ANA blood test, sometimes called FANA (fluorescent antinuclear antibody test), a blood sample is drawn from the patient and sent to the lab for testing. ‘Eat Out to Help Out’, the UK government instructs – healthily or otherwise, according to taste. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Your immune system normally makes antibodies to help you fight infection. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Download our English Dictionary apps - available for both iOS and Android. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Amaze your friends with your new-found knowledge! In contrast, antinuclear antibodies often attack your body's own tissues — specifically targeting each cell's nucleus.In most cases, a positive ANA test indicates that your immune system has launched a misdirected attack on your own tissue — in other words, an autoimmune reaction. Used to refer to ingredients in prescriptions. We have almost 200 lists of words from topics as varied as types of butterflies, jackets, currencies, vegetables and knots! Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Our new online dictionaries for schools provide a safe and appropriate environment for children. Copyright © 2010 by These new words are a rather mixed bag, and they show the dictionary in both its serious and light-hearted moods. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Perhaps the most striking thing about the list of words that people have looked up in the Collins Dictionary in July is that it no longer contains a lot of words that were being looked up earlier in the year.