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Definition: Endometrium |
EndometriumNoun1. The mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Endometrium \En`do*me"tri*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression 'e`ndon within mh`tra the womb.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The layer of tissue that lines the uterus. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Endometrium |
| English words defined with "endometrium": adenomyosis ♦ decidua ♦ endometrial, endometriosis, endometritis ♦ luteal phase ♦ metritis ♦ secretory phase. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "endometrium": endometrial disorder ♦ gynecologic cancer ♦ Ovum Implantation, Delayed. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "endometrium": Endometritis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, endometrium, cervix and vagina.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In this therapy estrogen is combined with another female sex hormone, progesterone, to prevent uncontrolled growth of the endometrium. (references) | |
In particular, estrogen therapy has been associated with an increased risk for cancers of the breast and endometrium (lining of the uterus). (references) | ||
Endometrial tissue residing outside the uterus responds to the menstrual cycle in a way that is similar to the way endometrium usually responds in the uterus. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Endometrium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endometrium" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "endometrium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | endometrium, endometrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | endometrium, baarmoederslijmvlies. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | endometrium, kohdun limakalvo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | endomètre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Endometrium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδομήτριο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | endometrio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endometriumay endometru. (various references) endometrio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tunica mucosa uteri. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "endometrium" (pronounced 'En`do*me"tri*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium, Ascidium, Aspersorium, Asylum, Auchenium, Auditorium, Aurum, Bacterium, Ballium, barium, Basidium, Basigynium, Basipterygium, Bdellium, Begum, Bivium, Brachium, Brontotherium, Brontozoum, Bryozoum, Bucranium, Bungarum, Cadmium, Caecum, Caesium, Caladium, Calamistrum, Calcaneum, Calcium, Calistheneum, Callosum, Cambium, Candelabrum, Capitulum, Carborundum, Caseum, Castoreum, Celtium, Centrum, Cephalanthium, Cerebellum, Cerebrum, Cerium, Ceruleum, Cheiropterygium, Cheirotherium, Chloralum, Chromium, Chrysanthemum, Ciborium, Cingulum, Claustrum, Clinanthium, Clum, Coagulum, Coccobacterium, Coelum, Coenoecium, Colchicum, Colleterium, Collodium, Collum, Collyrium, Colostrum, Columbarium, Columbium, Cometarium, Compendium, Compluvium, Conidium, Conium, Conjugium, Contagium, Conundrum, Corallum, Corniculum, Coronium, Corrigendum, Corundum, Cranium, Credendum, Cribellum, Crincum, Crincum-crancum, Crinum, Crissum, Crotalum, cuprum, Curriculum, Cymatium, Cymbium, Cynarrhodium, Cypripedium, damnum, Datum, Davyum, Decennium, Decipium, Decorum, Degum, Deinotherium, Deliquium, Delirium, Deltidium, Dentalium, Depositum, Desideratum, Diacodium, Dianium, Dictum, Didymium, Digitorium, Diluvium, Diverticulum, Doliolum, Dolium, Dorsum, Dromatherium, Duodenum, dysprosium, Eardrum, Ecballium, Ecthoreum, Ectobronchium, Ectropium, Effluvium, Ekaluminium, Elaterium, Elysium, Emporium, Encomium, Endocardium, Endomysium, Endoneurium, Endophloeum, Endosteum, Endothecium, Endothelium, Enrheum, Entobronchium, Entropium, Ephippium, Epicardium, Epicedium, Epicleidium, Epicranium, Epigastrium, Epineurium, Epiphyllum, Epipodium, Episternum, Epithalamium, Epithelium, Equilibrium, Equisetum, Erratum, Erythronium, Eulogium, Eupatorium, Euphonium, Euphorbium, europium, Excubitorium, Exogium, Exordium, Exothecium, Factotum, Factum, Fee-faw-fum, Figgum, Flabellum, flagellum, folium, forum, Fraenulum, Fretum, Frigidarium, frustum, fulcrum, fum, Fumatorium, Furculum, Garum, Gelsemium, Geranium, Germarium, Gigerium, Glabellum, Glaum, Glochidium, Glucinum, Gnaphalium, Gnathidium, Gonoblastidium, Gossypium, Grum, Guiacum, Gymnasium, gynoecium, Gypsum, Habendum, Hamatum, harmonium, harum-scarum, Haum, Haustellum, haustorium, Helichrysum, Hemicerebrum, Herbarium, Hesperidium, Hibernaculum, hilum, holmium, hoodlum, hordeolum, Hormogonium, Hospitium, Hummum, hydrargyrum, Hydroperitoneum, Hydrophyllium, hymenium, Hypanthium, Hypericum, Hypnum, hypochondrium, Hypocleidium, Hypodactylum, Hypogastrium, Hypogeum, Hypoptilum, Ichthyopterygium, Illicium, Ilmenium, Imperium, Impluvium, Incertum, Incunabulum, indecorum, indium, indusium, infundibulum, Interambulacrum, Intercentrum, Interoperculum, INTERREGNUM, Intervallum, Involucellum, Ionidium, iridium, jejunum, jorum, Jugulum, Jugum, Juramentum, Kalium, kettledrum, Korrigum, Labarum, Labellum, labium, Labrum, Laburnum, Lactucarium, ladanum, lanthanum, Larum, Latibulum, laudanum, Lavoesium, linoleum, Linum, Lithargyrum, lithium, Lixivium, Lum, lustrum, lutecium, lyceum, Lycopodium, Lygodium, Macrosporangium, Madisterium, magnesium, magnum, Manganesium, Manganium, manubrium, Marrubium, mausoleum, Meconidium, meconium, meerschaum, memorandum, Menstruum, mentum, Mercurammonium, Mesembryanthemum, Mesoarium, Mesobronchium, Mesocaecum, Mesogastrium, Mesometrium, Mesonotum, Mesophloeum, Mesophyllum, Mesopodium, Mesopterygium, Mesorchium, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Mesosternum, mesothelium, Mesothorium, mesovarium, Mesymnicum, Metalammonium, Metanotum, Metapodium, Metapterygium, Meum, Microsporangium, millennium, minimum, minium, Minum, modicum, molluscum, molybdenum, momentum, Monopodium, moratorium, Multum, museum, mutandum, Mycelium, Myocardium, Nasturtium, Natatorium, Natrium, Nemathecium, Nephridium, neptunium, Neuropodium, Nitroleum, norium, Norwegium, Nostrum, Notaeum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-m-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: remounted, unmerited, unmitered, untrimmed. | |
-3 letters: deuteron, domineer, dormient, entoderm, mentored, mutineer, oriented, reminted, retinued, reunited, routemen, rudiment, udometer, unmitred. | |
-4 letters: demerit, demeton, demount, denture, detinue, dimeter, dourine, emeroid, ermined, erodent, erudite, eudemon, immured, intrude, memento, merited, midterm, mimeoed, minored, minuted, minuter, mitered, moderne, mordent, mounted, mounter, mourned, mutined, neuroid, omentum, onetime, outride, remount, retimed, retinue, retuned, reunite, routine, tenured, trimmed, turdine, unmiter, unmitre, unrimed, untired, untried, uterine. | |
-5 letters: dement, demote, demure, denier, denote, detour, dieter, dimmer, dimout, dinero, diuron, domine, dormie, dormin, dotier, dunite, durion, editor, emerod, emetin, emodin, emoted, emoter, endite, endure, enduro, entire, enured, ermine, immune, immure, inured, ironed, itemed, iterum, medium, memoir, mender, mentor, mentum, meoued, merino, mermen, meteor, metier, metred, minder, minted, minter, minuet, minute, mitred, modern, moment, monied, moreen, murein, murine, mutine, nereid, neuter, nimmed, nimrod, norite, normed, omened, oreide, orient, redone, redout, reedit, reemit, reined, remend, remind, remint, remote, rented, retied, retime, retine, retune, rident, rimmed, rioted, rodent, rodmen, rotund, routed, ruined, tedium, tender, tenour, tenure, teredo, termed, tiered, tinder, tommed, toneme, tonier, toured, triene, trined, triode, triune, tureen, turned, undoer, united, uniter, unmeet, untied, untrim, untrod, ureide. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-m-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+4 letters: semidocumentary. | |
+5 letters: overcommunicated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 64 6F 6D 65 74 72 69 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.. --- -- . - .-. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d o m e t r i u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 006F 006D 0065 0074 0072 0069 0075 006D |
| 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)3980708179718684758779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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