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Definition: Alkalosis |
AlkalosisNoun1. Abnormally high alkalinity (low hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A pathological condition that removes acid or adds base to the body fluids. (references) |
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Crosswords: Alkalosis |
| English words defined with "alkalosis": alkalotic, apyretic tetanus ♦ intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus ♦ metabolic alkalosis ♦ respiratory alkalosis ♦ tetanilla, tetany. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "alkalosis": altitude alkalosis ♦ hypocarbia. (references) |
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| "Alkalosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alkalosis" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "alkalosis": altitude alkalosis ♦ metabolic alkalosis ♦ respiratory alkalosis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alkalosis | 22 |
alkalosis metabolic | 20 |
respiratory alkalosis | 13 |
acidosis alkalosis | 3 |
alkalosis contraction | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "alkalosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 碱中'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | alkalose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | alkalose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aineenvaihdunnallinen alkaloosi (metabolic alkalosis), respiratorinen alkaloosi (respiratory alkalosis), metabolinen alkaloosi (metabolic alkalosis), korkeusalkaloosi (altitude alkalosis), hengitysalkaloosi (respiratory alkalosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | alcalose (s. f) (high blood alkalinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Alkalose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αλκάλωση ύψους (altitude alkalosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בססת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | alcalosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アルカリ土類金属 (alkali earth metal, alkaloid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アルカローシス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alkalosisay alteração da relação ácido-base no sangue (high blood alkalinity), alcalose. (various references) alcalosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Alkalosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albalooshi, Ankylosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-k-l-l-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: alkalis. | |
-3 letters: alkali, assail, assoil, koalas, salals, salols, skills, skoals. | |
-4 letters: alias, askoi, askos, assai, kails, kills, kilos, koala, kolas, lasso, oasis, ollas, ossia, sails, sakis, salal, salol, salsa, sials, silks, sills, silos, sisal, skill, skoal, soaks, soils. | |
-5 letters: aals, ails, alas, alls, also, asks, ilka, ilks, ills, kaas, kail, kill, kilo, kiss, koas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-k-l-l-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: kilopascals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6B 61 6C 6F 73 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. -.- .- .-.. --- ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101011 01100001 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l k a l o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006B 0061 006C 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357877677881857585 |
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