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Eosinophil

Definition: Eosinophil

Eosinophil

Noun

1. A leukocyte readily stained with eosin.

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

 

Specialty Definitions: Eosinophil

DomainDefinitions

Health

A polymorphonuclear leucocyte with large eosinophilic granules in its cytoplasm, which plays a role in hypersensitivity reactions. (references)

Medicine

Eosinophil:a polymorphonuclear leucocyte with large eosinophilic granules in its cytoplasm, which plays a role in hypersensitivity reactions. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Eosinophil

Synonym: eosinophile (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Eosinophil

English words defined with "eosinophil": eosinophilic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "eosinophil": eosinophil leucocyteGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorInterleukin-5RANTES. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Eosinophil

DomainTitle

Books

  • Eosinophil in Health and Disease (reference)

  • Immunobiology of the Eosinophil (reference)

  • Regulation of Human Eosinophil Transmigration Across Lung Epithelium (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1 (reference)

  • The eosinophil (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Eosinophil

"Eosinophil" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Eosinophil" is used about 9 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
Noun (singular)55.56%5157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%3202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Expression: Eosinophil

Expression using "eosinophil": eosinophil leucocyte. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eosinophil

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

eosinophil

53

eosinophil gastroenteritis

3

count eosinophil

3

blood eosinophil level

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

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Modern Translations: Eosinophil

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

Danish

  

eosinophilocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofilocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofil granulocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofil celle (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eosinofiele leukocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiele cel (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

eosinosolu (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiilinen granulosyytti (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiili (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosiinimielteinen jyvässolu (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), asidofiili (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

French

  

polynucléaire éosinophile (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), microphage (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), leucocyte éosinophile (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), granulocyte acidophile (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), cellule alpha d'Ehrlich (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), cellule éosinophile (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), éosinophile (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), éosinocyte (eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

German

  

eosinophiler Leukozyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηωσινόφιλο κύτταρο (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Italian

  

granulocito eosinofilo (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eosinophilay

   

Portuguese

  

leucócito eosinófilo (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), granulócito eosinófilo (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

leucocito eosinófilo (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), granulocito eosinófilo (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

eosinofil leukocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofil granulocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Eosinophil

Derivations

Words beginning with "eosinophil": eosinophilia, eosinophilias, eosinophilic, eosinophils. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Eosinophil

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-o-p-s"

-2 letters: hiplines, pinholes.

-3 letters: elision, epsilon, hipline, isoline, lionise, loonies, phenols, phonies, pinhole, pinoles, plenish, plosion, sinopie, splenii.

-4 letters: eloins, helios, holies, holpen, hoolie, insole, ionise, isohel, lesion, lipins, looies, loosen, nihils, oleins, opines, pensil, phenol, phones, phonos, pilose, pinole, poison, poleis, polies, polios, polish, ponies, sileni, siphon, solion, spinel, spline.

-5 letters: eloin, enols, eosin.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: eosinophils.

 

+2 letters: eosinophilia, eosinophilic.

 

+3 letters: entomophilies, eosinophilias.

 

+4 letters: dinitrophenols.

 

+5 letters: ionospherically, nonhospitalized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Eosinophil


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

45 6F 73 69 6E 6F 70 68 69 6C

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 01101111 01110011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#105 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006F 0073 0069 006E 006F 0070 0068 0069 006C

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

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

39818575808182747578

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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