Hepatomegaly

Definition: Hepatomegaly

Hepatomegaly

Noun

1. Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

Specialty Definitions: Hepatomegaly

Domain	Definitions
Health	Enlargement of the liver. (references)
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Synonym: Hepatomegaly

Synonym: megalohepatia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hepatomegaly

Specialty definitions using "hepatomegaly": Diabetes Mellitus, Lipoatrophic ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type I, Glycogen Storage Disease Type III. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hepatomegaly

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The serious icteric form (Weil's disease) is not common, but hemorrhage, hepatomegaly, pulmonary hemorrhage, ARDS, and jaundice are among the severe features. (references)
		During the acute phase (caused by the migration of the immature fluke through the hepatic parenchyma), manifestations include abdominal pain, hepatomegaly, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, urticaria and eosinophilia, and can last for months. (references)
		Symptoms may include visual impairments including retinitis pigmentosa and nystagmus (rapid, involuntary jerky eye movements), hearing impairments, hypotonia (decreased muscle tone), failure to thrive, developmental delay, ataxia (impaired muscle coordination), hepatomegaly (enlargement of the liver), hypocholesterolemia (an abnormally diminished amount of cholesterol in the blood), and mild facial dysmorphism (abnormalities in the form and structure of the face). (references)
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Usage Frequency: Hepatomegaly

"Hepatomegaly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hepatomegaly" is used about 9 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
Adverb (general)	100%	9	117,287

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

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Expression: Hepatomegaly

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hepatomegaly": spleno-hepatomegaly.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hepatomegaly

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
hepatomegaly	47
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Modern Translations: Hepatomegaly

Language		Translations for "hepatomegaly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		hepatomegali (hepatomegalia). (various references)

Dutch		hepatomegalie (hepatomegalia). (various references)

French		hépatomégalie (hepatomegalia). (various references)

German		Hepatomegalie (hepatomegalia). (various references)

Greek		ηπατομεγαλία (hepatomegalia). (various references)

Italian		epatomegalia (hepatomegalia). (various references)

Pig Latin		epatomegalyhay

Portuguese		hepatomegalia (hepatomegalia). (various references)

Spanish		hepatomegalia (hepatomegalia). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hepatomegaly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-l-m-o-p-t-y"
	-4 letters: apholate, apothegm, geophyte, helotage, helpmate, hepatoma, hypogeal, playmate, polymath.
	-5 letters: agamete, apetaly, apogamy, apogeal, apothem, atemoya, empathy, employe, galeate, haylage, heeltap, hematal, hypogea, maleate, maypole, meltage, metopae, oatmeal, palmate, phlegmy, taphole.
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