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Definitions: Hodgkin |
HodgkinNoun1. English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866). 2. English chemist who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994). 3. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HodgkinSynonyms: Alan Hodgkin (n), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (n), Dorothy Hodgkin (n), Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (n), Thomas Hodgkin (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (medicine), Hodgkin cell, Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease, stage I Hodgkin's disease, stage II Hodgkin's disease, stage III Hodgkin's disease, stage IV Hodgkin's disease, undifferentiated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
Crosswords: Hodgkin |
| English words defined with "Hodgkin": Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley, Andrew Huxley ♦ Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin ♦ Huxley ♦ Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ♦ Thomas Hodgkin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hodgkin": Hodgkin Disease ♦ Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin ♦ Reed-Sternberg Cells. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Thomas Hodgkin photographed by Ernest Edwards.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Prayer for my block--Chambers Street / Carter Hodgkin.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hodgkin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Hodgkin" is used about 52 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 (proper) | 98.08% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Hodgkin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hodgkin | Last name | 200 | 31,828 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Hodgkin": Alan Hodgkin ♦ Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ♦ Dorothy Hodgkin ♦ Hodgkin Disease ♦ Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ♦ Thomas Hodgkin. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Hodgkin": Non-hodgkin. | |
Containing "Hodgkin": Goldman-hodgkin-katz. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Hodgkin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Hodgkins sygdom (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), Hodgkins sarkom (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), Hodgkins paragranulom (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), Hodgkin-celle (Hodgkin cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ziekte van Sternberg (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), ziekte van Paltauf (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), ziekte van Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), reuscel van Reed-Sternberg (Hodgkin cell), pseudoleukemie (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, lymphatic cachexia, Reed-Hodgkin disease), lymphosarcoma (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), lymphomatosis granulomatosa (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), lymphoma maligna (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), lymphogranulomatosis maligna (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), lymphogranuloma malignum (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), granulomatosis maligna (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), granuloma infectiosa (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), anaemia lymphatica (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | sarcome de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma), para-granulome de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma), maladie de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma), cellule de Hodgkin (Hodgkin cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Hodgkin-Syndrom (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), Hodgkin-Krankheit (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), Hodgkin Zelle (Hodgkin cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύτταρο Sternberg (Hodgkin cell), κακοήθης λεμφοκοκκιωμάτωση (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), νόσος του Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sarcoma di HODGKIN (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), malattia di HODGKIN (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), linfogranuloma maligno di HODGKIN (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), cellula di STERNBERG (Hodgkin cell), cellula di HODGKIN (Hodgkin cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odgkinhay sarcoma de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), granuloma de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), doença de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), célula de Hodgkin (Hodgkin cell). (various references) enfermedad de Hodgkin (Hodgkin disease, Hodgkin granuloma, Hodgkin sarcoma, Reed-Hodgkin disease), célula de Sternberg (Hodgkin cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Hodgkin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hodeken, Hodgins, hodgkinn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: hoking. | |
-2 letters: dingo, doing, ohing. | |
-3 letters: ding, dink, dong, gink, hind, hong, honk, ikon, kind, king, kino, nigh, nodi, oink. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, dog, don, ghi, gid, gin, god, hid, hin, hod, hog, hon, ink, ion, khi, kid, kin, koi, nod, nog, noh. | |
-5 letters: do, go, hi, ho, id, in, no, od, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-h-i-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: kinghood. | |
+2 letters: kinghoods. | |
+3 letters: knighthood. | |
+4 letters: hardworking, hoodwinking, knighthoods. | |
+5 letters: bodychecking, doughnutlike, rockhounding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 64 67 6B 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -.. --. -.- .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01100100 01100111 01101011 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o d g k i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0064 0067 006B 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42817073777580 |
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