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Definition: HIPPOCAMPAL |
HIPPOCAMPALAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the hippocampus. |
Crosswords: HIPPOCAMPAL |
| Specialty definitions using "HIPPOCAMPAL": Dentate Gyrus ♦ Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal. (references) |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 58 | 44,427 |
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 |
hippocampal sclerosis | 7 |
hippocampal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 comisura del hipocampo (hippocampal commissure), circunvolución del hipocampo (hippocampal gyrus). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "HIPPOCAMPAL" (pronounced 'Hip`po*cam"pal'): Antipapal, Carpal, Chloropal, Intercarpal, Intermetacarpal, metacarpal, Nopal, Opal, Papal, Pupal, sepal, Supercarpal. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 49 50 50 4F 43 41 4D 50 41 4C |
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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 01001001 01010000 01010000 01001111 01000011 01000001 01001101 01010000 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H I P P O C A M P A L |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4243505049373547503546 |
| 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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