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Definitions: Gigantism |
GigantismNoun1. Excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland. 2. Excessive largeness of stature. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The condition of abnormal overgrowth or excessive size of the whole body or any of its parts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GigantismSynonyms: giantism (n), overgrowth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gigantism |
| Specialty definitions using "gigantism": Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome ♦ Proteus Syndrome. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When GH-producing tumors occur in childhood, the disease that results is called gigantism rather than acromegaly. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gigantism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gigantism" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
gigantism | 64 |
gigantism picture | 7 |
cerebral gigantism | 5 |
acromegaly gigantism | 4 |
gigantism history | 3 |
gigantism people picture | 2 |
cerebral gigantism sotos syndrome | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gigantism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gigantisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gigantisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | gigantismi, jättikasvu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gigantisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gigaswuchs, Gigasform, Gigantismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γιγαντισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gigantizmus (giantism), óriásnövés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gigantismo (excessive tallness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 巨大症 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょ いしょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igantismgay gigantismo (giantlike). (various references) gigantismo (excessive tallness, giantism). (various references) gigantism. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gigantism": gigantisms. (additional references) | |
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"Gigantism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: giantish, giganteum, giganteus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-i-m-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: agisting, giantism, imagings. | |
-2 letters: animist, gaiting, gamings, gasting, imaging, imagist, intimas, masting, matings, misting, santimi, smiting, staging, timings. | |
-3 letters: agings, aiming, animis, gainst, gaming, gamins, gating, giants, intima, isatin, mantis, mating, matins, saimin, sating, simian, siting, stigma, taming, timing. | |
-4 letters: aging, agism, agist, amins, angst, animi, antis, gains, gaits, gamin, gangs, giant, gigas, gnats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-i-m-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gigantisms. | |
+2 letters: magnetising, misgrafting. | |
+3 letters: hamstringing, stigmatizing, thingamajigs, thingumajigs. | |
+4 letters: antismuggling, guesstimating, miscataloging. | |
+5 letters: disambiguating, hemagglutinins, transmigrating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 67 61 6E 74 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. --. .- -. - .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01100111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i g a n t i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0067 0061 006E 0074 0069 0073 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417573678086758579 |
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