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Allantois

Definition: Allantois

Allantois

Noun

1. Vascular fetal membrane that develops from the hindgut in embryonic higher vertebrates (mammals; birds; reptiles).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Allantois

DomainDefinitions

Health

An embryonic diverticulum of the hindgut of reptiles, birds, and mammals; in man its blood vessels give rise to those of the umbilical cord. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Allantois

English words defined with "allantois": allantoic, Allantoidal, Allantoidea, Anallantoic, Anallantoideachorioallantoic membrane, chorioallantois. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Allantois

"Allantois" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allantois" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allantois

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

  allantois

4
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Modern Translations: Allantois

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

Danish

  

amnionstilk (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

amnionnavelstreng (abdominal pedicle, mesodermal cord, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

French

  

allantoïde. (various references)

   

German

  

Allantois, Harnsack. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοιλιακός μίσχος της αλλαντοϊδος (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allantoisay

   

Spanish

  

pedículo mesoabdominal (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), cordón amniótico (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Allantois

Derivations

Words ending with "allantois": chorioallantois. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Allantois

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-l-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: alations, lanitals, santalol, stallion.

-2 letters: alation, install, lanital, latinos, lintols, solatia, talions.

-3 letters: alants, allots, aloins, aslant, atolls, atonal, instal, lanais, latino, lianas, lintol, llanos, nasial, salina, santol, sonata, talion, tallis, talons, tolans, tonsil.

-4 letters: alans, alant, alias, alist, allot, aloin, altos, anils, anlas, anoas, antas, antis, atlas, atoll, iotas, lanai, liana, lilts, linos.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-l-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: allantoins, altiplanos, spallation.

 

+2 letters: alkylations, allantoides, allegations, allocations, palliations, salvational, spallations.

 

+3 letters: alleviations, alloantigens, amontillados, antisocially, appellations, blastulation, calculations, installation, labiodentals, monastically, salutational, vacillations.

 

+4 letters: agonistically, aldolizations, alliterations, anticolonials, balletomanias, blastulations, cancellations, cantillations, complaisantly, flagellations, hallucinators, installations, legalizations, localizations, misallocating, misallocation, nostalgically, onomastically, oscillational, postcranially, postulational, reallocations, sensationally, situationally, suballocation, syllabication, thrasonically, translational.

 

+5 letters: alloantibodies, antialcoholism, astronomically, collaborations, diagnostically, gallicizations, globalizations, hallucinations, illustrational, labializations, lexicalisation, megalopolitans, metallizations, misallocations, miscalculation, multinationals, palletizations, pleonastically, pluralizations, recalculations, reinstallation, suballocations, syllabications, transitionally, ultrasonically.

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Alternative Orthography: Allantois


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

41 6C 6C 61 6E 74 6F 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 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101111 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#111 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 0061 006E 0074 006F 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

357878678086817585

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INDEX

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


  

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