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Definition: Gastritis |
GastritisNoun1. Inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Gastritis \Gas*tri"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from. Greek expression stomach -itis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Inflammation, especially mucosal, of the stomach; the symptoms are pain, nausea and vomiting, may be caused by intoxication by industrial chemicals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Inflammation of the stomach. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Gastritis |
| English words defined with "gastritis": acute gastritis ♦ chronic gastritis ♦ famotidine ♦ histamine blocker ♦ Pepcid ♦ ranitidine ♦ Zantac. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gastritis": Atrophic Gastritis ♦ Gastritis, Atrophic, Gastritis, Hypertrophic ♦ Helicobacter heilmannii, Helicobacter Infections ♦ Ménétrier's Disease ♦ Vitamin U. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gastritis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (gastritis), Dutch (gastritis), German (gastritis), Serbo-Croatian (gastritis), Spanish (gastritis). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Anemia can cause gastritis. (references) | |
Chronic infection also causes gastritis and gastric carcinoma. (references) | ||
Gastritis, or dyspepsia, is an inflammation of the stomach lining. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gastritis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gastritis" is used about 330 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% | 330 | 15,812 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gastritis": acute gastritis ♦ Atrophic Gastritis ♦ chronic gastritis. 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 |
gastritis | 1,068 |
gastritis symptom | 72 |
gastritis diet | 30 |
gastritis chronic | 28 |
gastritis treatment | 22 |
erosive gastritis | 16 |
atrophic gastritis | 15 |
gastritis acute | 15 |
helicobacter pylori gastritis | 9 |
gastritis cronica | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gastritis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gastrit (inflammation of the stomach). (various references) | |
Arabic | إلتهاب المعدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гастрит. (various references) | |
Chinese | 胃炎 . (various references) | |
Czech | zánìt žaludku. (various references) | |
Danish | gastritis (inflammation of the stomach). (various references) | |
Dutch | gastritis, maagontsteking (inflammation of the stomach). (various references) | |
Farsi | ورم معده , اماس معده , التهاب معده . (various references) | |
French | gastrite. (various references) | |
German | gastritis. (various references) | |
Greek | γαστρίτισ, γαστρίτις (inflammation of the stomach), γαστρίτιδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "לקת "קב". (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyomorhurut, gasztritisz. (various references) | |
Italian | gastrite (inflammation of the stomach). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胃炎 (gastric catarrh). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いえ" (beyond, further than, gastric catarrh). (various references) | |
Korean | 위염. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astritisgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gastrite (gastroenteritis, inflammation of the stomach). (various references) | |
Romanian | gastritã. (various references) | |
Russian | гастрит. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gastritis. (various references) | |
Spanish | gastritis (inflammation of the stomach, ventricular verrucous catarrh). (various references) | |
Swedish | akut magkatarr. (various references) | |
Thai | กระเพาะอาหารอักเสบ (ทางการแพทย์). (various references) | |
Turkish | gastrit, mide mukozası iltihabı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | гастрит. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gastritis": gastritises. (additional references) | |
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"Gastritis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gasteritis, gastritas, Gautrait. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gastritis" (pronounced gastrī"tus) |
| 6 | -t r ī" t u s | detritus. |
| 5 | -r ī" t u s | arthritis, osteoarthritis. |
| 4 | -ī" t u s | bronchitis, encephalitis, hepatitis, laryngitis, mastoiditis, meningitis, situs. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, asbestos, berettas, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, duplicitous, emeritus, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, momentous, notice, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: satirist, sitarist. | |
-2 letters: artists, straits, tsarist. | |
-3 letters: agists, artist, gratis, grists, sistra, sitars, staigs, stairs, starts, strait, strati, traits. | |
-4 letters: agist, airts, arsis, astir, gaits, gasts, girts, gists, grass, grist, grits, ragis, saris, satis, sitar, stags, staig, stair, stars, start, stats, stirs, stria, tarsi, tarts, titis, tragi, trait, trass, trigs, tsars. | |
-5 letters: airs, airt, aits, arts, gait, gars, gast, gats, girt, gist, gits, grat, grit, iris, ragi, rags, rats, rias, rigs, sags, sari, sati, sirs, sits, sris, stag, star, stat, stir, tags, tars, tart, tass, tats, titi, tits, trig, tsar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: guitarists. | |
+2 letters: gastritides, gastritises, graffitists, instigators, misstarting, straightish. | |
+3 letters: airtightness, dissertating. | |
+4 letters: disintegrates, intransigents, investigators, pragmaticists, registrations, resuscitating. | |
+5 letters: agriculturists, airtightnesses, astrobiologist, disintegrators, epigrammatists, hairsplittings, intransigeants, mistranslating, parasitologist, primatologists, reinvestigates, segregationist, stratigraphies, ultrarightists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 73 74 72 69 74 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a s t r i t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 0069 0074 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416785868475867585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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