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MAOI

Definition: MAOI

MAOI

Noun

1. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"MAOI" is a common misspelling or typo for: magi, maid, mail, maim, main, Maui, maxi, moa, moil.



Specialty Definitions: MAOI

DomainDefinitions

Health

A drug that inhibits the mitochondrial enzyme monoamine oxidase. Such inhibitors are currently used clinically as antidepressant drugs. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MAOI

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

MAOI

EnglishMonoamine oxidase inhibitorChemistry

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: MAOI

Synonym: monoamine oxidase inhibitor (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: MAOI

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

ECT appears to be more effective than MAOI in the treatment of severe depressions, but available studies have generally used relatively low MAO doses. (references)

The patient's medical status is often the determining consideration in the use of ECT. ECT may be necessary when the patient has medical conditions that preclude the use of TCA, MAOI, lithium, and neuroleptics. (references)

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

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Modern Translations: MAOI

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

Danish

  

monoamino-oxidasehæmmer (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), MAO-hæmmer (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

mono-aminooxydaseremmers (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), MAO-remmer (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), M.A.O.-remmers (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), inhibitor van het mono-amino-oxydase (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

monoamiini-oksidaasin inhibiittori (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

   

French

  

inhibiteurs de la monoamine-oxydase, inhibiteur de la monoamine-oxydase, inhibiteur de la mono-amine-oxydase (MAO-inhibitor), inhibiteur de la monoamine oxydase (MAO-inhibitor), IMAO (MAO-inhibitor), I.M.A.O.. (various references)

   

German

  

Monoaminoxydasehemmstoff (MAO-inhibitor, monoamine oxidase inhibitor), Monoaminooxydasen-Hemmer (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), Monoaminooxydasehemmer (monoamineoxidase inhibitor), MAO-Inhibitor (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), MAOH (monoamineoxidase inhibitor), Inhibitor der Monoaminoxydase (MAO-inhibitor, monoamine oxidase inhibitor), IMAO (MAO-inhibitor, monoamine oxidase inhibitor), Hemmstoff der Monoaminoxidase (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παρεμποδιστής της μονοαμινο-οξειδάσης (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), αναστoλείς της μονοαμινικής οξυδάσης (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), αναστολείς της MAO (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inibitori della monoamminossidasi (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), inibitore della monoamminoossidasi (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), I.M.A.O. (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), anti-MAO (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aoimay

   

Portuguese

  

inibidores da MAO (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), inibidor da monoamino-oxídase (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), IMAO (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), I.M.A.O. (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inhibidores de la monoaminoxidasa (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), inhibidor MAO (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), inhibidor de la monoaminooxidasa (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), IMAO (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), I.M.A.O. (monoamine oxidase inhibitors). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

monoaminooxidashämmare (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor), MAO-hämmare (monoamine-oxidase inhibitor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MAOI

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-m-o"

-1 letter: aim, ami, moa.

-2 letters: ai, am, ma, mi, mo, om.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-o"
 

+1 letter: amido, amigo, amino, amnio, axiom, imago, miaou, miaow, moira.

 

+2 letters: akimbo, amidol, amigos, ammino, amnion, amnios, anomic, anomie, atomic, axioms, camion, daimio, daimon, daimyo, diatom, domain, glioma, imagos, lipoma, maloti, manioc, manito, miaous, miaows, mikado, mimosa, modica, mohair, moirai, mosaic, myopia, nomina, oilman, oomiac, oomiak, optima, vomica.

 

+3 letters: abomasi, aciform, acromia, aliform, alimony, alodium, amboina, ambroid, ameboid, amidols, amidone, ammonia, ammonic, amnions, amniote, amoebic, amorini, amorino, amorist, amosite, amotion, amyloid, angioma, animato, anomies, anosmia, anosmic, apomict, armoire, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism, atomist, atomize, bambino, bimodal, biomass, bohemia, camions, campion, chamiso, chamois, chamoix, coadmit, coaming, comatic, comatik, comical, comitia, coremia, daimios, daimons, daimyos, diamond, diatoms, diorama, diploma, domains, domical, emporia, encomia, fibroma, foamier, foamily, foaming, gliomas, gourami, haemoid, halidom, hemiola, imagoes, immoral, impasto, ipomoea, isogamy, isogram, komatik, lampion, limacon, lipomas, loamier, loaming, mafiosi, mafioso, mahonia, mailbox, maillot, maintop, malison, manihot, manioca, maniocs, manitos, manitou, mansion, masonic, mastoid, mattoid, melodia, meropia, miaoued, miaowed, mikados, mimosas, minorca, mirador, moaning, moating, mochila, mohairs, mohalim, monacid, monadic, moraine, morphia, mosaics, moviola, myopias, nomadic, nominal, oghamic, oilcamp, omphali, onanism, oomiack, oomiacs, oomiaks, optimal, oralism, origami, osmatic, potamic, ptomain, rampion, rhizoma, roaming, romaine, shamois, somatic, somital, tampion, timpano, tinamou, toxemia, tritoma, vomicae, zoarium.

 

+4 letters: abdomina, achromic, aconitum, acrimony, acromial, acromion, acrotism, admonish, aeriform, aerobium, agnomina, agrimony, airdrome, airwoman, airwomen, algorism, allodium, amberoid, ambition, amboinas, ambroids, ambrosia, amidogen, amidones, amitoses, amitosis, amitotic, amitrole, ammoniac, ammonias, ammonify, ammonite, ammonium, ammonoid, amnionic, amniotes, amniotic, amoeboid, amoretti, amorists, amortise, amortize, amosites, amotions, amphioxi, amphipod, amyloids, anatomic, anemosis, angiomas, animator, anosmias, anoxemia, anoxemic, antiatom, antifoam, antimony, antinomy, antismog, aphorism, apogamic, apomicts, apomixes, apomixis, arciform, armigero, armoires, armonica, armorial, armories, armoring, aromatic, atomical, atomised, atomiser, atomises, atomisms, atomists, atomized, atomizer, atomizes, atropism, auriform, azotemia, azotemic, bambinos, bigamous, bimanous, binomial, bioplasm, biramose, biramous, bohemian, bohemias, bondmaid, boyarism, cacomixl, cambogia, cameoing, camisado, camisole, camomile, campions, caroming, chamisos, champion, choriamb, cimbalom, cinnamon, coadmire, coadmits, coamings, coinmate, comaking, comatiks, comedian, comitial, complain, copremia, cosmical, coumaric, coumarin, cramoisy, daemonic, daimones, daimonic, demoniac, demonian, diamonds, diatomic, digamous, dioramas, dioramic, diplomas, diplomat, dogmatic, dominant, dominate, dopamine, egomania, episomal, exogamic, exonumia, fibromas, flamingo, foamiest, foamlike, foilsman, foramina, formalin, gasiform, gliomata, gloaming, gnomical, gouramis, guaiocum, hairworm, halidome, halidoms, harmonic, hematoid, hemiolas, hemiolia, himation, homaging, hominian, humanoid, ideogram, ignorami, imitator, immolate, immortal, impactor, impastos, infamous, informal, insomnia, iotacism, ipomoeas, isograms, janiform, kakiemon, kilogram, komatiks, laconism, lambdoid, laminose, laminous, lampions, limacons, lipomata, loamiest, localism, loyalism, macaroni, machismo, mafiosos, magnolia, mahonias, mahzorim, maidhood, mailbomb, maillots, maintops, maiolica, majolica, majoring, majority, makimono, malisons, malleoli, mamboing, manatoid, mandioca, mandolin, manifold, manihots, maniocas, manitous, mannitol, manorial, mansions, marigold, mariposa, marocain, masoning, massicot, mastoids, mattoids, maxicoat, mediator, melanoid, melodias, melodica, memorial, meropias, metazoic, miaouing, miaowing, microbar, migrator, minatory, minorcas, miradors, misatone, mislabor, misogamy, moatlike, moccasin, mochilas, modality, molality, molarity, monacids, monadism, monastic, monaxial, monazite, monecian, monoacid, monomial, monorail, moonsail, morainal, moraines, morainic, moralise, moralism, moralist, morality, moralize, morphias, mortmain, moshavim, motional, motivate, mountain, movieola, moviolas, mucoidal, mutation, myotonia, myriapod, nabobism, napiform, nomadism, nominals, nominate, nonimage, obeahism, oghamist, oilcamps, olibanum, olympiad, omniarch, omnivora, onanisms, oogamies, oomiacks, oralisms, organism, orgasmic, origamis, origanum, palimony, palomino, pastromi, picloram, picogram, pivotman, plasmoid, pointman, pomading, proclaim, proemial, prolamin, prosaism, protamin, proximal, ptomaine, ptomains, racemoid, radioman, radiomen, ramiform, ramosity, rampions, rhodamin, rolamite, romaines, romanise, romanize, romantic, rosarium, royalism, saintdom, salmonid, scolioma, semicoma, semolina, sesamoid, shamosim, simoniac, sodamide, solarism, solarium, solatium, stasimon, stomatic, sympodia, symposia, tampions, tinamous, toadyism, totalism, toxaemia, toxaemic, toxemias, tritomas, vamosing, variform, variorum, vasiform, villadom, vocalism, voltaism, wailsome, womaning, womanise, womanish, womanize, yahooism, zoariums, zoomania.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MAOI


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

4D 41 4F 49

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)

01001101 01000001 01001111 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 004F 0049

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

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

47354943

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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