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Definition: Mediastinum |
MediastinumNoun1. The part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | The space in the chest which lies between the two lungs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The area between the lungs. The organs in this area include the heart and its large blood vessels, the trachea, the esophagus, the bronchi, and lymph nodes. (references) |
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Crosswords: Mediastinum |
| English words defined with "mediastinum": Mediastinal, Mediastine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mediastinum": Bronchogenic Cyst ♦ Choriocarcinoma ♦ Lymphangiomyoma ♦ Mediastinal Diseases, Mediastinal Neoplasms, Mediastinitis, Mediastinoscopes, Mediastinoscopy ♦ Pneumomediastinum, Diagnostic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mediastinum" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (mediastinum). |
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| "Mediastinum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mediastinum" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
mediastinum | 33 |
cancer mediastinum | 3 |
anatomy mediastinum | 3 |
tumor of the mediastinum | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "mediastinum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | средостение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mediastinum, cavum mediastinale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | middelvliesruimte, mediastinum, spatium mediastinale, cavum mediastinale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mediastinumia sklerosoiva lymfooma (sclerosing lymphoma of mediastinum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mediastinum, médiastin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mittelfellraum, Mittelfell, Mediastinum, Mediastinalraum, Spatium mediastinale, Cavum mediastinale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεσαύλιο, μεσοπνευμόνιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mediastino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 縦隔 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅうかく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ediastinummay mediastino (mediate), mediano (average, mean, medial, median, medium, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middling). (various references) средостение. (various references) medijastinum. (various references) mediastino (inter-pleural cavity, inter-pleural space). (various references) mediastinalt skleroserande lymfom (sclerosing lymphoma of mediastinum). (various references) середостіння. (various references) vách. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mediastinum. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-m-n-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: immunised. | |
-3 letters: adenitis, amidines, audients, dainties, diamines, disunite, immunise, manumits, maundies, mediants, minutiae, misaimed, mismated, misnamed, mistimed, mistuned, mutinied, mutinies, nudities, sinuated, summated, summited, untidies. | |
-4 letters: amidine, amidins, amities, ammines, animism, animist, audient, aunties, dauties, destain, detains, diamine, diamins, diastem, dimmest, distain, dummies, dunites, dustman, dustmen, etamins, immunes, indites, indiums, indusia, inedita, inmates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-m-m-n-s-t-u" | |
+5 letters: multidimensional. | |
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