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Definition: Giardiasis |
GiardiasisNoun1. Infection of the intestines with protozoa found in contaminated food and water; characterized by diarrhea and nausea and flatulence and abdominal discomfort. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An infection of the small intestine caused by the flagellated protozoan Giardia lamblia. It is spread via contaminated food and water and by direct person-to-person contact. (references) |
Hydrologic | A disease that results from an infection by the protozoan parasite Giardia Intestinalis, caused by drinking water that is either not filtered or not chlorinated. The disorder is more prevalent in children than in adults and is characterized by abdominal discomfort, nausea, and alternating constipation and diarrhea. (references) |
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Crosswords: Giardiasis |
| English words defined with "giardiasis": Flagyl ♦ metronidazole. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Giardia lamblia is the protozoan organism that causes the disease Giardiasis, a diarrheal disorder directly affecting the small intestine.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Kreuter AK, Del Bene VE, Amstey MS. Giardiasis in pregnancy. (references) | |
Lengerich EJ, Addiss DG, Juranek DD. Severe giardiasis in the United States. (references) | ||
Cysts are resistant forms and are responsible for transmission of giardiasis. (references) | ||
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| "Giardiasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Giardiasis" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
giardiasis | 95 |
giardiasis treatment | 5 |
giardia giardiasis lamblia | 3 |
giardiasis symptom | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "giardiasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | giardiaasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection), lambliaasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | giardiase (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection), lambliase (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | γιαρδίαση (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection), λαμβλίαση (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | giardiasi lambliasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ランブル鞭毛虫症 (headlight, lamp, light, love, love hotel, ramp, rampway, rump steak, run length), 寄"虫症 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ランブルべ"もうちゅうしょう, きせいちゅうしょう. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iardiasisgay giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection), lambliasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-i-r-s-s" | |
-4 letters: agrias, saigas. | |
-5 letters: agars, agria, arias, arsis, assai, drags, gadis, girds, grads, grass, grids, irids, radii, ragas, ragis, raias, raids, rigid, sadis, sagas, saids, saiga, sards, saris. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 61 72 64 69 61 73 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. .- .-. -.. .. .- ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i a r d i a s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0061 0072 0064 0069 0061 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41756784707567857585 |
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