Table 3

Adjectives that occur >100 times in stem cell MEDLINE references

Ranking
Score
Adjective

1
51.3
embryoid
2
35.7
somital
3
32.4
mesodermal
4
30.5
totipotent
5
27.8
fibroblastic
6
19.4
mesenchymal
7
18.6
semisolid
8
18.5
immortal
9
17.1
haemopoietic
10
15.4
committed
11
14.4
ectodermal
12
14.3
vegetal
13
13.3
hematopoietic
14
13.2
senescent
15
12.2
diploid
16
12.1
dermal
17
12.0
endodermal
18
11.8
skinned
19
11.7
confluent
20
11.3
sonic
21
11.2
haematopoietic
22
10.6
myogenic
23
10.5
erythropoietic
24
10.5
embryonic
25
10.4
quiescent
26
10.4
morphogenetic
27
9.2
inductive
28
9.1
primitive
29
9.1
dorsoventral
30
8.7
unscheduled

Suomela and Andrade BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:75   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-75