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Alkalosis

Definition: Alkalosis

Alkalosis

Noun

1. 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.
 

Specialty Definitions: Alkalosis

DomainDefinitions

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 tetanusintermittent cramp, intermittent tetanusmetabolic alkalosisrespiratory alkalosistetanilla, tetany. (references)
Specialty definitions using "alkalosis": altitude alkalosishypocarbia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Alkalosis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Authentic Arthritis Diet and the Problem of Alkalosis (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Alkalosis

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Alkalosis

Expressions using "alkalosis": altitude alkalosis metabolic alkalosis respiratory alkalosis. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alkalosis

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  alkalosis

22

  alkalosis metabolic

20

  respiratory alkalosis

13

  acidosis alkalosis

3

  alkalosis contraction

2
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Modern Translations: Alkalosis

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

   

Portuguese

  

alteração da relação ácido-base no sangue (high blood alkalinity), alcalose. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alcalosis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Alkalosis

Misspellings

"Alkalosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albalooshi, Ankylosis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alkalosis

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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Alternative Orthography: Alkalosis


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

41 6C 6B 61 6C 6F 73 69 73

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)

.-    .-..    -.-    .-    .-..    ---    ...    ..    ...

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

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

01000001 01101100 01101011 01100001 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#107 &#97 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

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)

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

357877677881857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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