Histiocytosis

Definition: Histiocytosis

Histiocytosis

Noun

1. A blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages.

Specialty Definitions: Histiocytosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	General term for the abnormal appearance of histiocytes in the blood. Based on the pathological features of the cells involved rather than on clinical findings, the histiocytic diseases are subdivided into three groups: Langerhans cell histiocytosis, non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and malignant histiocytic disorders. (references)
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Crosswords: Histiocytosis

English words defined with "histiocytosis": Hand-Schuller-Christian disease ♦ Schuller-Christian disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "histiocytosis": Eosinophilic Granuloma, essential lipoid histiocytosis ♦ Hand-Schueller-Christian Syndrome, Histiocytic Disorders, Malignant, Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell, Histiocytosis, Malignant, Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell, Histiocytosis, Sinus ♦ Letterer-Siwe Disease, Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Ki-1 ♦ Niemann-Pick disease 2.essential lipoid histiocytosis. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Histiocytosis

"Histiocytosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Histiocytosis" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

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Expression: Histiocytosis

Expression using "histiocytosis": essential lipoid histiocytosis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Histiocytosis

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
histiocytosis	59
histiocytosis x	13
histiocytosis langerhans cell	12
histiocytosis sinus	4
histiocytosis langerhans	4
histiocytosis malignant	4
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Modern Translations: Histiocytosis

Language		Translations for "histiocytosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		histiocytosis X (histiocytosis X), histiocytose. (various references)

Dutch		histocytosis, histocytose, histiocytosis-syndroom (histiocytosis X), histiocytosis, histiocytose. (various references)

Finnish		histiosytoosi X (histiocytosis X). (various references)

French		histiocytose X (histiocytosis X), histiocytose, syndrome histiocytaire (histiocytosis X). (various references)

German		Histiozytose. (various references)

Greek		ιστιοκυττάρωση (histiocytosis X), ιστιοκυτταρικό σύνδρομο (histiocytosis X). (various references)

Italian		sindrome istiocitaria (histiocytosis X), istiocitosi X (histiocytosis X), istiocitosi. (various references)

Pig Latin		istiocytosishay

Portuguese		histiocitose. (various references)

Spanish		histiocitosis X (histiocytosis X). (various references)

Swedish		malign histiocytos (malignant histiocytosis). (various references)
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Anagrams: Histiocytosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-i-o-o-s-s-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: schistosity.
	-5 letters: cystitis, otiosity, otocysts.
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