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ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

Specialty Definition: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

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Health

A genus of parasitic nematodes of the superfamily Metastrongyloidea. Two species, Angiostrongylus cantonensis and A. vasorum, infest the lungs of rats and dogs, respectively. A. cantonensis is transmissible to man where it causes frequently fatal infection of the central nervous system. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

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Health

The nematode (roundworm) Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the most common cause of human eosinophilic meningitis. (references)

The drug of choice for treatment of either Angiostrongylus cantonensis (eosinophilic meningitis) or Angiostrongylus costaricensis (abdominal angiostrongyliasis) infections is mebendazole. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

Expression using "ANGIOSTRONGYLUS": Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

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

angiostrongylus cantonensis

6

angiostrongylus costaricensis

5

angiostrongylus

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-u-y"

-4 letters: langostinos, outgrossing.

-5 letters: autolysing, gorgonians, granulosis, ignorantly, insulators, langostino, outgassing, outglaring, outranging, outsnoring, outsoaring, strangling, urologists, younglings.

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Alternative Orthography: ANGIOSTRONGYLUS


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

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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)

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004E 0047 0049 004F 0053 0054 0052 004F 004E 0047 0059 004C 0055 0053

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

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

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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