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Definition: Laryngitis |
LaryngitisNoun1. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Laryngitis \Lar`yn*gi"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Larynx, and -tis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Inflammation of the larynx. This condition presents itself with dryness and soreness of the throat, difficulty in swallowing, cough, and hoarseness. (references) |
Medicine | Pl. laryngitides, inflammation of the larynx. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LaryngitisSynonym: Voice disorders. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Laryngitis |
| English words defined with "laryngitis": Croupous ♦ spasmodic laryngitis, Stridulous laryngitis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Laryngitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (laryngitis), Dutch (laryngitis), German (laryngitis). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Laryngitis is an inflammation or swelling of the vocal folds. (references) | |
Less common presentations are pharyngitis, laryngitis, and sinusitis. (references) | ||
The voice of someone with laryngitis will often sound raspy, breathy, and hoarse. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Laryngitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laryngitis" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "laryngitis": spasmodic laryngitis ♦ Stridulous laryngitis. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
laryngitis | 607 |
cure for laryngitis | 33 |
laryngitis treatment | 18 |
laryngitis remedy | 17 |
laryngitis symptom | 14 |
chronic laryngitis | 13 |
home remedy for laryngitis | 9 |
reflux laryngitis | 9 |
cause laryngitis | 7 |
acute laryngitis | 6 |
have i laryngitis | 3 |
contagious laryngitis | 3 |
cat laryngitis | 3 |
laryngitis viral | 3 |
causing laryngitis | 3 |
had laryngitis | 2 |
laryngitis treat | 2 |
feline laryngitis | 2 |
treating laryngitis | 2 |
get laryngitis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laryngitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | laringjit, pezmatim i fytit (catarrh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إلتهاب الحنجرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ларингит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 喉炎 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zánìt hrtanu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laryngitis (laryngeal angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laryngitis (laryngeal angina), keelontsteking (angina, quinsy, sore throat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | laringito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حنجره بینی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laryngite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | laryngitis, kehlkopfentzündung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαρυγγίτισ, λαρυγγίτιδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לקת "'רון (angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gégegyulladás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | laringite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 喉 炎 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うとうえ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lostey scoarnee, lostey goolag, gorley aahjioogh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aryngitislay laringite (laryngologist). (various references) laringitã (hives). (various references) ларингит. (various references) zapaljenje grla. (various references) laringitis (laryngeal angina). (various references) laryngit, strupkatarr. (various references) โรคกล่องเสียงอักเสบ. (various references) larenjit, gırtlak iltihabı. (various references) ларингіт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Laryngitis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: larangitis, larengitis, larnygitis, larygitis, laryngitus, larynjitis, Loriniti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laryngitis" (pronounced le'runjī"tus) |
| 7 | -u n j ī" t u s | meningitis. |
| 4 | -ī" t u s | arthritis, bronchitis, detritus, encephalitis, gastritis, hepatitis, mastoiditis, osteoarthritis, situs. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, asbestos, berettas, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, duplicitous, emeritus, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, momentous, notice, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ringtails. | |
-2 letters: railings, ringtail, salinity, starling, stingily, stingray, straying, tailings, trailing. | |
-3 letters: agility, airings, airting, angrily, anility, arising, gastrin, gratins, gristly, intagli, lairing, lasting, listing, nastily, nilgais, nitrils, railing, rainily, raising, raisiny, ratings, ratlins, riantly, sailing, saintly, salting, silting, slating, slaying, stagily, staling, staring, staying, strigil, stringy, stygian, styling, syringa, tailing, tilings, tirling, trysail. | |
-4 letters: ailing, airily, airing, algins, aligns, argils, artily, gainly, gainst, gantry, gaslit, giants, glairs, glairy, glints, gnarls, gnarly, grails, grains, grainy, grants, gratin, gratis, grisly, inlays, instal, instar, instil, isatin, isling, lasing, laying, liangs, ligans, lingas, litany, lyings, lyrist, lysing, nilgai, nitril, raisin, rasing, rating, ratlin, raying, riling, rising, riyals, sanity, santir, sating, satiny, saying, signal, singly, siring, siting, slangy, slanty, snarly, stingy, strain, strang, string, stying, stylar, tangly, taring, tiling, tingly, tinily, tiring, trails, trains, trials, trigly, trinal, trying, tyring. | |
-5 letters: agist, airns, airts, algin, align, alist, angry, angst, anils, antis, antsy, argil, arils, artsy, aryls, astir, ayins, gaily, gains, gaits, garni, giant, gilts, girls, girly, girns, girts, glair, glans, glary, glias, glint, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grail, grain, grans, grant, grays, grins, grist, grits, gyral, inlay, intis, iring, lairs, laity, laris, liang, liars, ligan, linga, lings, lingy, lints, linty, liras, litai, litas, lyart, lying, lysin, nails, naris, nasty, ragis, rails, rains, rainy, rangy, ranis, rants, rials, riant, rings, riyal, saint, salty, sarin, satin, satyr, sigil, silty, sitar, slain, slang, slant, slaty, sling, snail, snarl, stagy, staig, stain, stair, stang, sting, stray, stria, styli, tails, tains, tangs, tangy, tansy, tarns, tarsi, tings, tirls, tragi, trail, train, trans, trays, trial, trigs, tying, yagis, yangs, yarns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: hairstyling, singularity. | |
+2 letters: crystalizing, hairstylings, laryngitides, playwritings. | |
+3 letters: crystallising, crystallizing, distractingly, nightmarishly. | |
+4 letters: intransigently, playwrightings. | |
+5 letters: commiseratingly, dishearteningly, intransigeantly, recrystallizing, synergistically. | |
| 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)4C 61 72 79 6E 67 69 74 69 73 |
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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)01001100 01100001 01110010 01111001 01101110 01100111 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a r y n g i t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0072 0079 006E 0067 0069 0074 0069 0073 |
| 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)46678491807375867585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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