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Definition: BLOODSTROKE |
BLOODSTROKENoun1. Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. |
Etymology: Bloodstroke \Blood"stroke`\, noun. [Compare to the French expression coup de sang.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-k-l-o-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: booklores, bookstore, brooklets. | |
-3 letters: boodlers, booklets, booklore, bookrest, brooklet. | |
-4 letters: boldest, boleros, bolster, bolters, boodler, boodles, bookers, booklet, boosted, booster, bordels, brooked, debtors, kobolds, lobster, lookers, looters, oldster, rebooks, reboots, relooks, retools, roosted, stooked, stooker, stooled, stroked, toledos, toolers. | |
-5 letters: betook, blokes, bloods, bolder, bolero, bolted, bolter, boodle, booked, booker, booted, bordel, bosker, bosket. | |
| 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 4C 4F 4F 44 53 54 52 4F 4B 45 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. --- --- -.. ... - .-. --- -.- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01001111 01001111 01000100 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L O O D S T R O K E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 004F 004F 0044 0053 0054 0052 004F 004B 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3646494938535452494539 |
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