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Pott's Disease

Definition: Pott's Disease

Pott's Disease

Noun

1. TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine.

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Crosswords: Pott's Disease

English words defined with "Pott's disease": Rachialgia. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Pott's disease

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pott's disease is a presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine. Precisely it is called tuberculous spondylitis and the original name was formed after Percivall Pott, a London sugeon. It is most commonly localized in the thoracic portion of the spine.

Common signs and symptoms are:

Diagnosis is based on: Late complications of the disease are: Treatment:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pott's disease."

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Modern Translation: Pott's Disease

Language Translations for "Pott's disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Potts sygdom (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), tuberkuløs spondylit (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ziekte van Pott (David disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), werveltuberculose (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), wervelcariës (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), spondylitis tuberculosa (David disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Pottin tauti (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), tuberkuloottinen spondyliitti (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), selkärankatuberkuloosi (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

   

French

  

mal de Pott (Pott's paraplegia). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πότειο κακό (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), φυματιώδης σπονδυλίτιδα (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spondilite tubercolare (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), morbo di Pott (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Spanish

  

mal de Pott (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), espondilitis tuberculosa (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), enfermedad de Pott (Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pott's Disease

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-d-e-e-i-o-p-s-s-s-t-t"

-4 letters: dioptases, distastes, epistases, petasoses, postdates, sidesteps, stateside, steadiest.

-5 letters: adeptest, adiposes, adoptees, assisted, deposits, despises, despites, dioptase, diseases, disposes, disseats, distaste, epidotes, episodes, epitases, osteites, pastiest, pastises, peatiest, pestiest, podestas, poetised, poetises, postdate, seasides, sedatest, sidestep, soapiest, staidest, stapedes, steadies, topsides.

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Alternative Orthography: Pott's Disease


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

50 6F 74 74 27 73      44 69 73 65 61 73 65

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 0074 0027 0073      0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50818686985238758571678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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