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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Concretions of swallowed hair, fruit or vegetable fibers, or similar substances found in the alimentary canal. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Bezoars can be dangerous if they block the passage of food into the small intestine. (references) | |
Avoid these foods because the indigestible part will remain in the stomach too long and possibly form bezoars. (references) | ||
If food lingers too long in the stomach, it can cause problems like bacterial overgrowth from the fermentation of food. Also, the food can harden into solid masses called bezoars that may cause nausea, vomiting, and obstruction in the stomach. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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 |
bezoars | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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"BEZOARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beshara, bezar, Biozorb, Bizouard, Ezzouar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-o-r-s-z" | |
-1 letter: bezoar, brazes, zebras. | |
-2 letters: arose, bares, baser, bears, boars, boras, bores, braes, braze, brose, razes, robes, saber, sabre, sober, zebra, zeros, zoeas. | |
-3 letters: abos, aero, arbs, ares, arse, bare, bars, base, bear, boar, boas, bora, bore, brae, bras, bros, ears, eras, eros, oars, obes, orbs, ores, osar, rase, raze, rebs, robe, robs, roes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-o-r-s-z" | |
+2 letters: arborizes, blazoners. | |
+3 letters: blazonries, carbazoles, carbonizes, zebrawoods. | |
+4 letters: aerobicizes, benzofurans, bipolarizes, emblazoners. | |
+5 letters: azotobacters, decarbonizes, emblazonries, suberization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 5A 4F 41 52 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . --.. --- .- .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01011010 01001111 01000001 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E Z O A R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 005A 004F 0041 0052 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36396049355253 |
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