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BIPHASIC

Specialty Definition: BIPHASIC

DomainDefinition

Health

Having two phases; having both a sporophytic and a gametophytic phase in the life cycle. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: BIPHASIC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aqueous Biphasic Separations: Biomolecules to Metal Ions (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: BIPHASIC

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The incubation period of LCMV infection is usually between 8 and 13 days. A characteristic biphasic febrile illness then follows. (references)

Riegel, A.C., and French, E.D. Acute toluene induces biphasic changes in rat spontaneous locomotor activity which are blocked by remoxipride. (references)

Fever is often biphasic, and there may be severe headache and neck rigidity, with transient paralysis of the limbs, shoulders or less commonly the respiratory musculature. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: BIPHASIC

"BIPHASIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIPHASIC" is used about 15 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%1590,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIPHASIC

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

biphasic

13

biphasic defibrillation

7

biphasic star technology waveform

6

biphasic defibrillator

4

biphasic defibrillators

4

biphasic cisplatin emesis pattern

3

alcohol biphasic response

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BIPHASIC

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

Danish

  

bifasisk. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bifasisch. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bifaasinen insuliini-injektio (biphasic insulin injection). (various references)

   

French

  

biphasé. (various references)

   

German

  

biphasisch. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bifasico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iphasicbay

   

Portuguese

  

bifásico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inyectable de insulina bifásica (biphasic insulin injection). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bifasiskt insulin för injektion (biphasic insulin injection). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BIPHASIC

Misspellings

"BIPHASIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biophasic, biphase, Biphonic, Bithesis. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BIPHASIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-i-p-s"

-1 letter: pachisi.

-2 letters: ischia, phasic.

-3 letters: aphis, apish, aspic, basic, caphs, chaps, chias, chips, picas, sahib, spahi, spica.

-4 letters: asci, bach, baps, bash, bias, cabs, caph, caps, cash, chap, chia, chip, chis, haps, hasp, hips, ibis, ichs, isba, pacs, pash, phis, pias, pica, pics, pish, scab, ship, spic.

-5 letters: abs, ais, ash, asp, bah, bap, bas.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-i-i-p-s"
 

+2 letters: basophilic.

 

+3 letters: biophysical.

 

+4 letters: amphisbaenic.

 

+5 letters: archbishopric.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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