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Definition: Fundus |
FundusNoun1. (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Fundus \Fun"dus\, noun. [Latin expression, bottom.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The larger part of a hollow organ that is farthest away from the organ's opening. The bladder, gallbladder, stomach, uterus, eye, and cavity of the middle ear all have a fundus. (references) |
Medicine | The base of the internal surface of a hollow organ; the part farthest removed or opposite the aperture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Fundus |
| Specialty definitions using "fundus": Esophageal and Gastric Varices ♦ Mallory-Weiss Syndrome ♦ Nissen Fundoplication ♦ Ophthalmoscopes ♦ retinal reflexes, retinoscope ♦ skiascope ♦ tesselate, tesselated fundus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fundus": fundament. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fundus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (basic equipment, equipment), Latin (bottom, estate, foundation, founder, fund, piece of land). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Normal fundus. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |  | Fundus photograph-CMV retinitis. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |
 | Direct method of examining the fundus oculi or eyeground. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen.. | ||
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| "Fundus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fundus" is used about 25 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% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fundus": fundus oculi ♦ Fundus of the Eye ♦ Gastric Fundus ♦ ocular fundus ♦ tesselated fundus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fundus | 30 |
fundus height | 15 |
fundus flavimaculatus | 7 |
fundus photography | 6 |
fundus camera | 6 |
fundus uterus | 5 |
fundus measurement | 3 |
fundus pregnancy | 2 |
eye fundus | 2 |
fundus height twin | 2 |
uterine fundus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fundus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | oftalmoskopi af fundus oculi (fundus oculi, funduscopy), crista transversa (crista transversa, crista transversa fundus meatus acustici interni). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fundus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | fundus oculi (fundus oculi, funduscopy), silmänpohja (fundus oculi, funduscopy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | fond. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Fundus (basic equipment, equipment), Grund (account, bed, bottom, call, cause, causing, depths, earth, field, foundation, ground, grounds, land, matter, motive, occasion, reason, score, soil, subject, territorially), Boden (attic, base, bottom, earth, floor, foundation, ground, land, loft, seabed, seat, soil, terrain), Blindsack. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυθμένας (base, bottom, bottom of the sea, floor, head, heading, invert, sea bed, truck bed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, depth, dregs, end, estate, floor, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 眼底出血 (hemorrage in the fundus of the eye), 眼底 (fundus of the eye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | が"ていしゅっけつ (hemorrage in the fundus of the eye), が"てい (front garden, front yard, fundus of the eye, preamble, premise, prerequisite, reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | undusfay fundo-de-saco, fundo (back, background, bottom, deep, depth, floor, foundation, fund, gist, ground, grounding, groundwork, milieu, profound, rock bottom, sole, sunken, undercurrent). (various references) fondo (back, backdrop, background, bottom, deep, depth, floor, fund, ground, long distance, rock bottom, seat, term). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "fundus" (pronounced 'Fun"dus'): Modus, Nidus, Sapindus, Turdus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-n-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: funds. | |
-2 letters: duns, fuds, fund, funs. | |
-3 letters: dun, fud, fun, nus, sun, uns. | |
-4 letters: nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-n-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: unfused. | |
+3 letters: dumfounds, fusulinid, superfund, underfurs, unfocused. | |
+4 letters: dumbfounds, fusulinids, nidifugous, superfunds, unconfused, underfunds, unfocussed. | |
+5 letters: desulfuring, dutifulness, unfurnished, unjustified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6E 64 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- -. -.. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u n d u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006E 0064 0075 0073 |
| 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)408780708785 |
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