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CONVULSANTS

Specialty Definition: CONVULSANTS

DomainDefinition

Health

Substances that act in the brain stem or spinal cord to produce tonic or clonic convulsions, often by removing normal inhibitory tone. They were formerly used to stimulate respiration or as antidotes to barbiturate overdose. They are now most commonly used as experimental tools. (references)

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

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Expression: CONVULSANTS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CONVULSANTS": anti-convulsants.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CONVULSANTS

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

anti convulsants

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: CONVULSANTS

Derivations

Words ending with "CONVULSANTS": anticonvulsants. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CONVULSANTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-l-n-n-o-s-s-t-u-v"

-1 letter: convulsant.

-3 letters: consults, nonclass, osculant, outclass, stannous.

-4 letters: cantons, conatus, consuls, consult, cutlass, locusta, locusts, santols, sonants, sultans, suntans, talcous, toucans, unvocal.

-5 letters: annuls, ascots, cannot, canons, cansos, canton, cantos, cantus, clasts, clavus, clonus, clouts, coasts, consul, costal, cotans, counts, custos, cutlas, locust, lovats, nounal, octans, oscula, salons, salvos, santol, santos, saults, scants, scouts.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-l-n-n-o-s-s-t-u-v"
 

+3 letters: vulcanisations.

 

+4 letters: anticonvulsants, anticonvulsives.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CONVULSANTS


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

43 4F 4E 56 55 4C 53 41 4E 54 53

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)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010110 01010101 01001100 01010011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#86 &#85 &#76 &#83 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0056 0055 004C 0053 0041 004E 0054 0053

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

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

3749485655465335485453

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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