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Definition: HERPETIC |
HERPETICAdjective1. Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions. |
Date "HERPETIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Crosswords: HERPETIC |
| English words defined with "HERPETIC": Dartrous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HERPETIC": herpes corneae ♦ Stomatitis, Herpetic. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Note the herpetic lesions on the palmar surface of the left ring finger. Living in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord, under stressful conditions, the herpes viruses migrate along the pathways of peripheral nerve distribution.Credit: CDC. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Like other herpetic infections, herpes of the eye can be controlled. (references) | |
The National Eye Institute supported the Herpetic Eye Disease Study, a group of clinical trials that studied various treatments for severe ocular herpes. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HERPETIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HERPETIC" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 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 |
post herpetic neuralgia | 88 |
herpetic whitlow | 46 |
herpetic stomatitis | 8 |
herpetic neuralgia | 8 |
gingivostomatitis herpetic | 6 |
encephalitis herpetic | 4 |
herpetic | 4 |
herpetic keratitis | 3 |
herpetic virus | 3 |
gingivostomatitis herpetic primary | 2 |
herpetic lesions | 2 |
herpetic neuralgia post slide | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HERPETIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | herpetisk, herpeticus, herpes-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | herpetisch, herpeticus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | herpétique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | herpetisch, herpeticus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερπητικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erpetico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '膜ヘルペス (herpetic keratitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かくまくヘルペス (herpetic keratitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erpetichay herpético. (various references) herpético. (various references) uçuk gibi. (various references) như bệnh mụn giộp mắc bệnh ecpet, mắc bệnh mụn giộp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"HERPETIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haptic, herpatic, merpati. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "HERPETIC" (pronounced 'Her*pet"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: erethic, etheric, heretic, pitcher, prithee, receipt, techier. | |
-2 letters: ceriph, cerite, cipher, cither, either, etcher, piecer, pierce, recept, recipe, recite, techie, threep, thrice, tierce. | |
-3 letters: cheep, cheer, chert, chirp, citer, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, erect, ether, ethic, ither, perch, peter, piece, pitch, price, recti, retch, retie, terce, their, there, three, thrip, trice, tripe. | |
-4 letters: cepe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: phrenetic. | |
+2 letters: aphaeretic, ciphertext, helicopter, perithecia, preachiest, preethical, spirochete. | |
+3 letters: champerties, ciphertexts, helicopters, heptarchies, heterotopic, heterotypic, hyperactive, hypermetric, lectureship, metanephric, parenthetic, paresthetic, pentarchies, perithecial, perithecium, spirochaete, spirochetes, telegraphic, therapeutic. | |
+4 letters: apothecaries, decipherment, electrophile, electrophori, encipherment, executorship, extrahepatic, helicoptered, hyperactives, hyperexcited, hyperkinetic, hypersthenic, hyperthermic, lectureships, overemphatic, phylacteries, picturephone, speechwriter, sphericities, spirochaetes, stepchildren, stereophonic, superbitches, therapeutics. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 52 50 45 54 49 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. .--. . - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01010010 01010000 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E R P E T I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0052 0050 0045 0054 0049 0043 |
| 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)4239525039544337 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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