PHTHIRIASIS

  

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PHTHIRIASIS

Definition: PHTHIRIASIS

PHTHIRIASIS

Noun

1. A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Phthiriasis \Phthi*ri"a*sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from louse.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PHTHIRIASIS

English words defined with "PHTHIRIASIS": Pediculation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PHTHIRIASIS": Herod's Death. (references)

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Modern Translations: PHTHIRIASIS

Language Translations for "PHTHIRIASIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

gorley meeyllagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iriasisphthay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PHTHIRIASIS"

Words rhyming with "PHTHIRIASIS" (pronounced 'Phthi*ri"a*sis'): Abiogenesis, Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, Adipolysis, AEsthesis, Agamogenesis, Agenesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Amphigenesis, Amylogenesis, Amylolysis, Anabasis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anagnorisis, Anamnesis, Anamorphosis, Anapophysis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Ankylostomiasis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Anthropomorphosis, Antimetathesis, Antiperistasis, Antiphrasis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Antithesis, Aparithmesis, Aphaeresis, Apheresis, Aphesis, Apodosis, Aponeurosis, Apophasis, Apophysis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PHTHIRIASIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-h-i-i-i-p-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: airships, harpists, phthisis, starship.

-4 letters: airship, harpist, rapists, raspish, spirits.

-5 letters: airths, aspish, iritis, parish, pastis, phasis, raphis, rapist, rishis, sharps, shirts, sistra, sitars, spahis, spaits, spirit, spirts, sprats, sprits, stairs, staphs, stirps, straps, strips, tapirs, thrash, thrips.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-h-i-i-i-p-r-s-s-t"
 

+5 letters: historiographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHTHIRIASIS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 54 48 49 52 49 41 53 49 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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