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DIVERTICULAR

Definition: DIVERTICULAR

DIVERTICULAR

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Commercial Usage: DIVERTICULAR

DomainTitle

References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Diverticular Disease (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Colonic Diverticular Disease (reference)

  • Diverticular disease of the colon (reference)

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Diverticular Disease: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIVERTICULAR

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Doctors believe a low-fiber diet is the main cause of diverticular disease. (references)

Diverticular disease caused by diverticula--outpouchings of the colon wall--can result in massive bleeding. (references)

To diagnose diverticular disease, the doctor asks about medical history, does a physical exam, and may perform one or more diagnostic tests. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: DIVERTICULAR

"DIVERTICULAR" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DIVERTICULAR" is used about 17 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%1785,106

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

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Expression: DIVERTICULAR

Expression using "DIVERTICULAR": Diverticular Disease. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIVERTICULAR

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

diverticular disease

66

diverticular

22

diverticular enfermedad

7

colon del diverticular enfermedad

4

diet disease diverticular

2

disease diverticular diverticulitis

2

bleeding diverticular

2

diet diverticular

2

disease diverticular diverticulosis

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

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Modern Translation: DIVERTICULAR

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

Danish

  

divertikeltumof (diverticular tumor), divertikelsvangerskab (diverticular pregnancy), divertikelkonkrement (diverticular concretion), divertikelblaere (diverticular bladder), prostatitis diverticulosa (diverticular prostatitis), hernia littrica indeholdende Meckels divertikel (diverticular hernia), cystocele uden fremfald af uterus (diverticular hernia), colitis diverticulosa (diverticular colitis), adenoma diverticulare (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hernia littreana (diverticular hernia), hernia diverticularis (diverticular hernia), adenoma diverticulare (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

French

  

diverticulite du colon (diverticular colitis), vessie diverticulaire (diverticular bladder), tumeur diverticulaire de la vessie (diverticular tumor), maladie diverticulaire de la prostate Heitz-Boyer (diverticular prostatitis), hernie du diverticule de Meckel (diverticular hernia), grossesse sur endosalpingiose (diverticular pregnancy), cystocèle sans ptose utérine (diverticular hernia), calcul intradiverticulaire (diverticular concretion), adénome diverticulaire (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

German

  

Divertikeltumor (diverticular tumor), Divertikelstein (diverticular concretion), Divertikelschwangerschaft (diverticular pregnancy), Divertikelhernie (diverticular hernia), Divertikelblase (diverticular bladder), Prostatitis diverticulosa (diverticular prostatitis), Hernia diverticularis (diverticular hernia), Colitis diverticulosa (diverticular colitis), Adenoma diverticulare (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κήλη κάποιου εκκολπώματος του εντέρου (diverticular hernia), εκκόλπωμα μεγάλης αρθρώσεως (diverticular pregnancy), εκκόλπωμα της ουροδόχου κύστεως (diverticular bladder), εκκολπωματικός όγκος (diverticular tumor), εκκολποματική κολίτιδα (diverticular colitis), λίθος εντός εκκολπώματος (diverticular concretion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattia diverticolare della prostata (diverticular prostatitis), malattia di Heitz-Boyer (diverticular prostatitis), fungo ombelicale (diverticular adenoma), ernia diverticolare (diverticular hernia), adenoma diverticolare (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iverticularday

   

Portuguese

  

tumor diverticular da bexiga (diverticular tumor), hérnia diverticular (diverticular hernia), colite diverticular (diverticular colitis), cálculo intradiverticular (diverticular concretion), bexiga diverticular (diverticular bladder), adenoma diverticular (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vejiga diverticular (diverticular bladder), tumor diverticular (diverticular tumor), prostatitis diverticular (diverticular prostatitis), hernia diverticular (diverticular hernia), hernia del divertículo de Meckel (diverticular hernia), embarazo ectópico (diverticular pregnancy), embarazo diverticular (diverticular pregnancy), colitis diverticulosa (diverticular colitis), cálculo intradiverticular (diverticular concretion), adenoma diverticular (diverticular adenoma). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DIVERTICULAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-r-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: diverticula.

-3 letters: curtailed, curtailer, larvicide, leviratic, lucrative, reticular, revictual, ridiculer, veridical, victualed, victualer, virucidal.

-4 letters: acervuli, articled, auditive, auricled, cavitied, ciliated, criteria, cultivar, curative, dilative, dilutive, diuretic, durative, lacertid, raticide, reticula, ridicule, ruralite, traducer, turrical, ultrared, uralitic, vaticide, vaultier, vertical, verticil, virucide.

-5 letters: acrider, arrived, article, auricle, carried, caviled, caviler, ciliate, cirrate, citadel, clavier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIVERTICULAR


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

44 49 56 45 52 54 49 43 55 4C 41 52

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)

01000100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0056 0045 0052 0054 0049 0043 0055 004C 0041 0052

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

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

384356395254433755463552

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INDEX

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


  

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