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GVHD

Specialty Definition: GVHD

DomainDefinition

Health

Graft-versus-host disease. A reaction of donated bone marrow or peripheral stem cells against a person's tissue. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GVHD

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GVHD

DutchGraft-versus-host-diseaseMedicine

GVHD

EnglishGraft-versus-host diseaseMedicine

GVHD

SwedishAntivärdreaktionMedicine

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

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Crosswords: GVHD

Specialty definitions using "GVHD": graft-versus-host disease. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: GVHD

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

GVHD can be mild or very severe. (references)

In addition, IVIG may suppress GVHD in some patient groups. (references)

Drugs may be given to reduce the risk of GVHD and to treat the problem if it occurs. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: GVHD

"GVHD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GVHD" is used about 8 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 (proper)100%8124,375

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GVHD

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

gvhd

25

gvhd liver

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

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Anagrams: GVHD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-g-h-v"
 

+5 letters: inveighed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GVHD


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

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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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0056 0048 0044

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. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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