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Definition: CORNEAS |
CORNEASPlural1. Of Cornea |
Crosswords: CORNEAS |
| English words defined with "CORNEAS": Corneule. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most of the studies are concerned with human corneas. (references) | |
Approximately 20 percent of corneal transplant patients--between 6000-8000 a year--reject their donor corneas. (references) | ||
The only documented cases of rabies caused by human-to-human transmission occurred among 8 recipients of transplanted corneas. (references) | ||
Human Rights | China | In June 2000, Wang Guoqi, a former employee of the Paramilitary Police General Division Hospital in Tianjin, testified before the U.S. Congress that he had harvested skin and corneas from more that 100 executed prisoners. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CORNEAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORNEAS" is used about 8 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
corneas de transplante | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CORNEAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | è§'膜 (Cornea, Corneal). (various references) | ||||
Korean | ê°ë§‰ (Cornea, Corneal). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | orneascay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"CORNEAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cervezas, colneis, cordemais, Corlears, Corneau, cornes, corneum, cornia, Corniea, cornua, cornwa, kerengas, morenas, Orneau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CORNEAS" (pronounced kô"rnēuz) |
| 4 | -n ē u z | petunias, zinnias. |
| 3 | -ē u z | anemias, areas, arias, arrhythmias, cafeterias, encyclopedias, forsythias, mafias, phobias, poinsettias, utopias, victorias. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coarsen, narcose. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: acorns, arseno, caners, canoes, casern, censor, coarse, cornea, cranes, crones, nacres, narcos, oceans, racons, rances, reason, recons, senora. | |
-2 letters: acnes, acorn, acres, aeons, arose, arson, caner, canes, canoe, canso, cares, carns, carse, ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, crane, crone, earns, escar, nacre, narco, narcs, nares, nears, ocean, ocrea, onces, orcas, races, racon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: acrogens, ancestor, coarsens, enactors, endosarc, nacreous, narcoses, romances, scenario. | |
+2 letters: absconder, accentors, acroleins, amelcorns, ancestors, anchoress, anchorets, anoretics, anorexics, arccosine, cancerous, canephors, cankerous, canonries, caponiers, carotenes, cavernous, censorial, chaperons, coarsened, cocineras, coenamors, colanders, conelrads, confervas, coparents, corantoes, corncakes, cornmeals, coronates, courantes, courtesan, crannoges, creations, endocarps, endosarcs, falconers, larcenous, nectarous, ordnances, outrances, portances, procaines, proscenia, rancheros, reactions, resonance, romancers, scenarios, secondary, veronicas. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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