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Definition: EBV |
EBVNoun1. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis; associated with specific cancers in Africa and China. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A DNA virus of the herpes group discovered in cultures of Burkitt's lymphoma cells. EBV is the cause of infectious mononucleosis, and it has an integration site on human chromosome 14. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EBV | English | Estimated Breeding Valve | Food & Agriculture |
EBV | German | Epstein-Barr-Virus | Medicine |
EBV | Italian | Virus di Epstein-Barr | N/A |
EBV | Portuguese | VĂrus Epstein Barr | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: EBVSynonym: Epstein-Barr virus (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Epstein-Barr virus (medicine), estimated breeding value (biology & biotechnology), Estimated Breeding Valve (food & agriculture). |
Crosswords: EBV |
| Specialty definitions using "EBV": Lymphoma, AIDS-Related. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It now seems clear that CFS cannot be caused exclusively by EBV or by any single recognized infectious disease agent. (references) | |
EBV was initially considered the most likely candidate as the causative agent in CFS. More recent studies make it clear that many CFS cases have no association with EBV infection. (references) | ||
CDC's four-city surveillance study found no association between CFS and infection by a wide variety of human pathogens, including EBV, human retroviruses, human herpesvirus 6, enteroviruses, rubella, Candida albicans, and more recently bornaviruses and Mycoplasma. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EBV" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EBV" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "EBV": ebv-immortalized. | |
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| 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 |
ebv | 85 |
ebv virus | 12 |
ebv treatment | 4 |
ebv symptom | 2 |
ebv elektronik | 2 |
ebv igg | 2 |
chronic ebv | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ebv"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ebvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-v" | |
-1 letter: be. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-v" | |
+1 letter: bevy, verb, vibe. | |
+2 letters: above, bevel, bevor, brave, breve, verbs, vibes. | |
+3 letters: aboves, adverb, beaver, beeves, behave, behove, belive, bevels, bevies, bevors, blivet, bovine, braved, braver, braves, breves, brevet, obvert, reverb, verbal, verbid, viable. | |
+4 letters: absolve, abusive, adverbs, beavers, bedevil, beehive, behaved, behaver, behaves, behoove, behoved, behoves, believe, beloved, bereave, beveled, beveler, bevomit, bivalve, blivets, bouvier, bovines, bravely, bravers, bravery, bravest, bravoed, bravoes, bravure, brevets, brevier, brevity, livable, lovable, lovebug, movable, obovate, observe, obverse, obverts, obviate, overbed, overbet, overbid, overbig, overbuy, overdub, proverb, reverbs, savable, subvene, subvert, verbals, verbena, verbids, verbify, verbile, verbose, vibrate, visible, vocable, voluble, votable. | |
+5 letters: ablative, abortive, abrasive, absolved, absolver, absolves, ambivert, avowable, beavered, bedcover, bedevils, bedrivel, beehives, behalves, behavers, behaving, behavior, behooved, behooves, behoving, believed, believer, believes, beloveds, bereaved, bereaver, bereaves, beshiver, beslaved, bevatron, bevelers, beveling, bevelled, beveller, beverage, bevomits, biconvex, bivalent, bivalved, bivalves, bloviate, bouviers, bovinely, brevetcy, breveted, breviary, breviers, burgrave, deverbal, divebomb, drivable, enviable, enviably, evadable, evadible, evitable, evocable, giveable, giveback, inviable, lavaboes, leviable, liveable, loveable, loveably, lovebird, lovebugs, movables, moveable, moveably, observed, observer, observes, obverses, obverted, obviable, obviated, obviates, obvolute, outbrave, ovenbird, overable, overbake, overbear, overbeat, overbets, overbids, overbill, overbite, overblew, overblow, overboil, overbold, overbook, overbore, overborn, overbred, overburn, overbusy, overbuys, overdubs, provable, proverbs, reverbed, riverbed, salvable, saveable, servable, shavable, solvable, sublevel, subovate, subserve, subvened, subvenes, subverts, svedberg, unviable, valuable, vambrace, variable, vendable, vendible, vendibly, verbally, verbatim, verbenas, verbiage, verbiles, verbless, verboten, vertebra, vibrance, vibrated, vibrates, viewable, vincible, violable, vitiable, vocables, voidable, voteable, waveband. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 42 56 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01000101 01000010 01010110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E B V |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0042 0056 |
| 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)393656 |
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