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"GALLSTONES" is a plural of: gallstone. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The solid masses or stones made of cholesterol or bilirubin that form in the gallbladder or bile ducts. (references) |
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Crosswords: GALLSTONES |
| English words defined with "GALLSTONES": Bilifuscin, Biliprasin ♦ cholelithiasis ♦ icterus ♦ jaundice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GALLSTONES": Bile Acids and Salts, biliary colic, Biliary Stricture ♦ Chenodeoxycholic Acid, Choledocholithiasis, Cholestanol, Common Bile Duct Calculi, Common Bile Duct Obstruction, Cystic Duct Obstruction ♦ Lithotripsy, Extracorporeal Shock Wave ♦ Oral Dissolution Therapy ♦ Ursodeoxycholic Acid. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Salmonella typhi, the bacterium responsible for causing Typhoid Fever, has a preference for the gallbladder, and if present will colonize the surface of gallstones, which is how people become long term carriers of the disease. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Gallbladder disease and gallstones. (references) | |
Gallstones and kidney stones are not related. (references) | ||
Many people with gallstones have no symptoms. (references) | ||
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| "GALLSTONES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GALLSTONES" is used about 27 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 (plural) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GALLSTONES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Gallensteine (gall stones). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 胆石 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | た"せきしょう (cholelithiasis), た"せき (day and night, morning and evening, on the brink of). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | allstonesgay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calculus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"GALLSTONES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballstones, gallations, galstones, gladstones, glagstones, gullstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GALLSTONES" (pronounced gÄ"lstō'nz) |
| 6 | -l s t ō' n z | cobblestones, hailstones, milestones. |
| 5 | -s t ō' n z | cherrystones, cornerstones, gemstones, gladstones, gravestones, headstones, limestones, rhinestones, tombstones. |
| 4 | -t ō' n z | overtones, undertones. |
| 3 | -ō' n z | allophones, cheekbones, crossbones, daimones, earphones, headphones, hormones, megaphones, microphones, pheromones, saxophones, silicones, telephones. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gallstone. | |
-2 letters: allonges, galleons, gellants, glasnost, goalless, stollens, tallness, tangelos, tollages. | |
-3 letters: allonge, etalons, galleon, gallets, gallons, gelants, gelatos, gellant, glossae, glossal, legatos, loessal, longest, onstage, sallets, santols, slogans, solates, stellas, stollen, tangelo, tangles, telsons, tolanes, tollage. | |
-4 letters: agents, aglets, agones, allots, angels, angles, angsts, anoles, assent, atolls, atones, etalon, gallet, gallon, gelant, gelato. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: legislations. | |
+3 letters: angelologists, strangleholds. | |
+4 letters: planetologists. | |
+5 letters: lignosulfonates, paleontologists. | |
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