amyloid plaque

1. 1.

   a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)

   Synonymsamyloid protein plaque

   Broaderplaque

Questions about amyloid plaque

What does amyloid plaque mean?

amyloid plaque means "a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)".

What is another word for amyloid plaque?

Close synonyms include amyloid protein plaque. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amyloid plaque a common word?

amyloid plaque is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.