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IL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A midwestern state in north-central United States
Synonyms:
IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "IL"):
Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)
Illinois River (a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River)
Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)
Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)
Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)
Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)
Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)
East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)
Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)
Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)
Rockford (a city in northern Illinois)
Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)
capital of Illinois; Springfield (capital of the state of Illinois)
Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)
Holonyms ("IL" is a part of...):
middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being nine more than forty
Synonyms:
49; forty-nine; il
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
A recombinant therapeutic agent which is chemically identical to or similar to the endogenous cytokine interleukin 11 (IL-11).
(Oprelvekin, NCI Thesaurus)
Pegylation of IL-2 protects the cytokine from degradation.
(PEG-interleukin-2, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition to activation of inflammatory cytokine genes like IL-1 and TNF, H. influenzae activates TLR2 expression and genes involved in mucus production.
(NFKB Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A population of activated, immortalized, interleukin-2 (IL-2)-dependent, cytotoxic natural killer (NK) cells with potential antitumor activity.
(Natural Killer Cells ZRx101, NCI Thesaurus)
IL-15 transgenic mouse, CD3+, resembles LGL leukemia.
(Mouse T-NK Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Type 2 Helper Cells are a subset of helper-inducer T-lymphocytes which synthesize and secrete the interleukins IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, and IL-10.
(Murine Th2 Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
Expression of IL-2 augments the specific CTL response against MUC1 expressing cells.
(MVA-MUC1-IL2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
These cells are characterized by the presence of the T-cell receptor, L-selectin and the IL-7 receptor and the absence of CD25, CD44, CD69 and CD45R0.
(Naive T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon intratumoral administration of INXN-2001 and oral administration of INXN-1001, INXN-1001 is able to induce expression of IL-12 from INXN-2001.
(Adenovirus-mediated Human Interleukin-12 INXN-2001 Plus Activator Ligand INXN-1001, NCI Thesaurus)
When inflammatory molecules were added to the cultures, the IL-1Ra prevented the production of a joint-damaging protein.
(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)
