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Enteric

Definitions: Enteric

Enteric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the enteron.

2. Of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "enteric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references)

Etymology: Enteric \En*ter"ic\, adjective. [from Greek expression. See Enteritis.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms: Enteric

Synonyms: enteral (adj), intestinal (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Enteric

English words defined with "enteric": enteric bacteria, enteric fever, escherichiaphenyl salicylate, Pituitous feversalol, Splanchnopleuretyphoid fever. (references)
Specialty definitions using "enteric": Adenoviruses, Simian, Arsanilic AcidBacterial TranslocationCampylobacter jejuni, COATER, Coronavirus, Humanenteric colibacillosis of calves, enteric colibacillosis of lambs, enteric colibacillosis of piglets, Enteric fermentation, Enteric Nervous System, EnterobactinFournier Gangrenepill coater, Prephenate Dehydratase, Prephenate DehydrogenaseSalmonella arizonae, Salmonella schottmuelleri, Sulfaguanidinetablet coater, Torovirus, Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal. (references)
Etymologies containing "enteric": Neurenteric. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Enteric" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (enteric).

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Commercial Usage: Enteric

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aspects of the Human Enteric Nervous System: A Study of the Normal Development and of Hirschsprung's Disease (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala diss (reference)

  • Autonomic and Enteric Ganglia: Transmission and Its Pharmacology (reference)

  • Enteric Infection 2: Intestinal Helminths (reference)

  • Enteric Infection Mechanisms Manifestations and Management (reference)

  • Enteric Infections and Immunity (Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Enteric

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

This woman suffers from enteric disease ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen..

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Enteric

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These new organisms often include the potential enteric pathogens. (references)

Enteric adenoviruses 40 and 41 cause gastroenteritis, usually in children. (references)

Besides ETEC and other bacterial pathogens, a variety of viral and parasitic enteric pathogens also are potential causative agents. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Enteric

"Enteric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Enteric" is used about 69 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)98.55%6840,606
Noun (proper)1.45%1339,140
                    Total100.00%69N/A

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

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Expression: Enteric

Expressions using "enteric": enteric bacteria enteric colibacillosis of calves enteric colibacillosis of lambs enteric colibacillosis of piglets enteric fever Enteric Nervous System Extra Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC] Regular Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC]. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "enteric": enteric-coated, enteric-coated aspirin.

Ending with "enteric": gastro-enteric.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enteric

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

enteric

12

coating enteric

8

enteric coated aspirin

7

enteric nervous system

7

enteric fever

5

enteric aspirin

5

enteric coated

5

enteric coated peppermint oil

5

bacterium enteric

3

enteric pathogens

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enteric

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

Albanian

  

i zorrëve (intestinal), i barkut (abdominal, antenatal, ventral). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чревен (intestinal, splanchnic). (various references)

   

Czech

  

střevní (intestinal). (various references)

   

Danish

  

enterovirus (enteric viruses), tyndtarmsfordoejelse (enteric digestion), tarmkanalvirus (enteric viruses), syreresistente præparat (enteric-coated preparation), syreresistent praeparat (enteric-coated preparation), rødmundssyge (enteric redmouth disease), plexus entericus (enteric plexus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

enteric virusen (enteric viruses), zuurvast preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), zuurresistent preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), zuurbestendig preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), vertering in de dunne darm (enteric digestion), gastro-intestinale tuberculose (enteric tuberculosis), acidoresistent preparaat (enteric-coated preparation). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

امعاءی (Intestinal). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

enterovirus (enteric viruses), ruuansulatuselinten tuberkuloosi (enteric tuberculosis). (various references)

   

French

  

entérique. (various references)

   

German

  

darm- (intestinal). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εντερικόσ (intestinal). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bél- (iliac, intestinal). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tentang isi perut. (various references)

   

Italian

  

enterico, intestinale (intestinal). (various references)

   

Manx

  

'sy vinnagh, minnaghoil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entericay

   

Portuguese

  

encetar (start). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

enteric. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кишечный (intestinal), брюшной (abdominal, ventral), интестинальный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

enteričan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entérico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tarm- (intestinal), inälvs- (intestinal). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับลำไส้. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ince bağırsak iltihabına ait, bağırsaklara ait (intestinal), bağırsak (bowel, bowels, enteron, gastral, gut, ileo-, intestinal, intestine). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

черевний (abdominal, coeliac, ventral), кишковий (intestinal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enteric

Derivations

Words ending with "enteric": dysenteric, mesenteric. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enteric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enteren, enteria, enteris, entero, entery, entetis, enverist, esteric, Estorick, lentheric, Menteri, oneiric, Pendreich. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Enteric"

Words rhyming with "enteric" (pronounced 'En*ter"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Enteric

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enticer.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-t"

-1 letter: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, recent, recite, retine, tenrec, tierce, triene.

-2 letters: citer, enter, erect, inert, inter, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, recti, rente, retie, terce, terne, treen, trice, trine.

-3 letters: cent, cere, cete, cine, cire, cite, erne, etic, nice, nite, rein, rent, rete, rice, rite, teen, tern, tier, tine, tire, tree.

-4 letters: cee.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: ceinture, centiare, creatine, enticers, enuretic, erecting, erection, frenetic, gentrice, incenter, increate, infecter, iterance, neoteric, prentice, reincite, reinfect, reinject, reticent, secretin, terpenic.

 

+2 letters: ancienter, ceintures, centering, centiares, centriole, centuries, certainer, cisternae, creatines, eccentric, energetic, enuretics, epicenter, erections, excreting, excretion, frenetics, gentrices, incenters, increment, infecters, intercede, intercell, intercept, interface, interject, interlace, intersect, iterances, nectaries, nectarine, neoterics, phrenetic, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, quercetin, reception, recipient, recondite, refecting, refection, reincited, reincites, reinfects, reinjects, reinspect, rejecting, rejection, renitency, resecting, resection, reticence, reticency, secreting, secretins, secretion, sincerest, stenchier, stenciler, stridence, thickener, ventricle, virescent.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Enteric


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

45 6E 74 65 72 69 63

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)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0069 0063

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

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

39808671847569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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