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Cholestasis

Definition: Cholestasis

Cholestasis

Noun

1. A condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed.

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


Specialty Definition: Cholestasis

DomainDefinition

Health

Impairment of biliary flow at any level from the hepatocyte to Vater's ampulla. (references)

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Synonym: Cholestasis

Synonym: acholia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cholestasis

Non-English Usage: "Cholestasis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Danish (cholestasis).

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Commercial Usage: Cholestasis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bile Acids and Cholestasis - XV International Bile Acid Meeting (reference)

  • Bile Acids, Cholestasis, Gallstones: Advances in Basic and Clinical Bile Acid Research: Proceedings of the Falk Symposium No. 84, Held in Berlin) (reference)

  • Cholestasis in Infancy: Its Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment. Ed by Morio Kasai. Proceedings of the Symposium Held June 7-9, 1978 (439P) (reference)

  • Cholestasis: Proceedings of the International Meeting on Cholestasis and Related Disorders, Florence, Italy, 23-26 March 1994 (International Congres) (reference)

  • Hepatobiliary Diseases: Cholestasis and Gallstone (Falk Symposium, Vol 17A) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Cholestasis

"Cholestasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cholestasis" is used about 34 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%3459,261

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cholestasis

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

cholestasis

62

cholestasis of pregnancy

20

obstetric cholestasis

14

cholestasis intrahepatic pregnancy

6

cholestasis intrahepatic

6

cholestasis during find pregnancy

2
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Modern Translation: Cholestasis

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

Danish

  

cholestasis, cholestase (cholestasia), galdestase (cholestasia). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

cholestase (cholestasia). (various references)

   

French

  

cholostase (cholestasia), cholestase, choléstase (cholestasia). (various references)

   

German

  

Cholestase (cholestasia). (various references)

   

Italian

  

colestasi (cholestasia). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olestasischay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

colestase (cholestasia). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cholestasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-o-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: scholiasts.

-2 letters: chastises, classiest, eschalots, halitoses, schistose, scholiast, shoaliest, sloshiest, solecists, solstices.

-3 letters: achiotes, cashless, celosias, chastise, cholates, classist, coaliest, coassist, coatless, costless, elastics, eschalot, ethicals, heliasts, hostiles, isolates, isotachs, lactoses, ossicles, satchels, scaliest, shaliest, shoalest, slatches, societal, solecist, solstice.

-4 letters: achiest, achiote, aitches, aloetic, ascesis, ascites, ashiest, ashless, assoils, castles, celosia, chaises, chalets.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-o-s-s-s-t"
 

+3 letters: historicalness, scholasticates.

 

+4 letters: atherosclerosis, cholinesterases, schoolmasterish, thalassocracies.

 

+5 letters: historicalnesses, methodicalnesses.

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INDEX

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


  

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