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Furunculosis

Definition: Furunculosis

Furunculosis

Noun

1. Acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles.

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

Date "furunculosis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Specialty Definition: Furunculosis

DomainDefinition

Health

An infection where furuncles are present over a period of weeks to months. Species of Staphylococcus are usually the causative agents. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Furunculosis

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

furunculosis

33
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Modern Translation: Furunculosis

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

Danish

  

furunkulose, furunculose. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

furunculose. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

furunkuloosi, lohikalojen paisetauti. (various references)

   

French

  

furonculose (f), furonculose. (various references)

   

German

  

Furunkulose (Delhi boil, Delhi sore, oriental sore). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δοθιήνωση. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חטטת (acne), סמטת. (various references)

   

Italian

  

foruncolosi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urunculosisfay

   

Portuguese

  

furunculose. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

furunculosis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Furunculosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-u-u-u"

-3 letters: funiculus, sulfurous, uncurious.

-4 letters: fluorins, luscious, scornful, sulfonic, sulfuric, usurious.

-5 letters: consuls, cousins, curious, florins, fluoric, fluorin, frisson, frolics, furious, fuscous, fusions, incross, insouls, ruinous, sinuous, sulfurs, uncoils, uncross, uncurls, unfurls, urinous.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Furunculosis


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

46 75 72 75 6E 63 75 6C 6F 73 69 73

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)

01000110 01110101 01110010 01110101 01101110 01100011 01110101 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 0072 0075 006E 0063 0075 006C 006F 0073 0069 0073

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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