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HIPPOCAMPAL

Definition: HIPPOCAMPAL

HIPPOCAMPAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms: HIPPOCAMPAL

Synonyms by domain: hippocampal commissure (medicine), hippocampal gyrus.

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Crosswords: HIPPOCAMPAL

Specialty definitions using "HIPPOCAMPAL": Dentate GyrusMossy Fibers, Hippocampal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HIPPOCAMPAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Hippocampal Region of the Domestic Pig: A Histochemical, Immunocytochemical, and Morphometrical Study (reference)

  • The Hippocampal and Parietal Foundations of Spatial Cognition (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HIPPOCAMPAL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

As the hippocampal neurons degenerate, short-term memory falters. (references)

While it may take years of temporal lobe seizures for measurable hippocampal damage to occur, this finding underlines the need to treat TLE early and as effectively as possible. (references)

Other areas of research center on how beta amyloid affects neurons--if at all. In one laboratory study, hippocampal neurons died when beta amyloid was added to the cell culture, suggesting that the protein is toxic to neurons. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HIPPOCAMPAL

"HIPPOCAMPAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HIPPOCAMPAL" is used about 58 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5844,427

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HIPPOCAMPAL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hippocampal sclerosis

7

  hippocampal

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HIPPOCAMPAL

Language Translations for "HIPPOCAMPAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gyrus hippocampi (hippocampal gyrus), commissura fornicis (hippocampal commissure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

psalterium (hippocampal commissure, lyra davidis), lyra davidis (hippocampal commissure, lyra davidis), gyrus parahyppocampalis (hippocampal gyrus), fornix transversus (hippocampal commissure, lyra davidis), commissura hippocampi (hippocampal commissure, lyra davidis), commissura fornicis (hippocampal commissure, lyra davidis). (various references)

   

French

  

commissure hippocampique (hippocampal commissure), circonvolution de l'hyppocampe (hippocampal gyrus), circonvolution de l'hippocampe (hippocampal gyrus). (various references)

   

German

  

Hakenwindung (hippocampal gyrus), Gyrus reticularis (hippocampal gyrus), Gyrus parahippocampalis (hippocampal gyrus), Gyrus hippocampi (hippocampal gyrus), Commissura fornicis (hippocampal commissure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιπποκάμπειος σύνδεσμος (hippocampal commissure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

uncino dell'ippocampo (hippocampal gyrus), lyra (hippocampal commissure), commissura del fornice (hippocampal commissure). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

海馬回 (hippocampal gyrus). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かいばかい (hippocampal gyrus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ippocampalhay

   

Spanish

  

comisura del hipocampo (hippocampal commissure), circunvolución del hipocampo (hippocampal gyrus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "HIPPOCAMPAL"

Words rhyming with "HIPPOCAMPAL" (pronounced 'Hip`po*cam"pal'): Antipapal, Carpal, Chloropal, Intercarpal, Intermetacarpal, metacarpal, Nopal, Opal, Papal, Pupal, sepal, Supercarpal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HIPPOCAMPAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-m-o-p-p-p"

-3 letters: haplopia.

-4 letters: acholia, camphol, mochila, oilcamp, omphali.

-5 letters: apical, calami, caliph, camail, chimla, copalm, holmic, impala, lipoma, lochia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HIPPOCAMPAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 50 50 4F 43 41 4D 50 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01010000 01010000 01001111 01000011 01000001 01001101 01010000 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#80 &#80 &#79 &#67 &#65 &#77 &#80 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0050 0050 004F 0043 0041 004D 0050 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4243505049373547503546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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