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MELIOIDOSIS

Specialty Definition: MELIOIDOSIS

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Health

A disease of humans and animals that resembles glanders. It is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei and may range from a dormant infection to a condition that causes multiple abscesses, pneumonia, and bacteremia. (references)

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Crosswords: MELIOIDOSIS

Specialty definitions using "MELIOIDOSIS": Burkholderia pseudomallei. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MELIOIDOSIS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (melioidosis).

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Commercial Usage: MELIOIDOSIS

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Books

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Photo Album: MELIOIDOSIS

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Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and is the causative agent of melioidosis. The organism's colonial morphology changes somewhat as the incubation is extended. Credit: CDC.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MELIOIDOSIS

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Health

There is no vaccine for melioidosis. (references)

Besides humans, many animal species are susceptible to melioidosis. (references)

Although bloodstream infection with melioidosis can be fatal, the other types of the disease are nonfatal. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MELIOIDOSIS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

melioidosis

10
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Modern Translation: MELIOIDOSIS

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

Danish

  

melioidose. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

melioidosis, melioidose, ziekte van Whitmore, pseudomalleus. (various references)

   

French

  

maladie de Whitmore, mélioïdose. (various references)

   

German

  

Melioidose. (various references)

   

Italian

  

melioidosi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elioidosismay

   

Spanish

  

melioidosis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: MELIOIDOSIS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

melioidosis. (various references)

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Anagrams: MELIOIDOSIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-l-m-o-o-s-s"

-2 letters: semisolid.

-3 letters: idolises, idolisms, midsoles, sodomies.

-4 letters: doilies, doolies, idolise, idolism, iodises, iodisms, isodose, lissome, meiosis, meloids, midsole, misdoes, mislies, missile, modioli, osmoles, osmosed, similes, simioid.

-5 letters: deisms, diesis, dismes, doolie, dossel, dossil, idioms, imides, iodise, iodism, lissom, looies, loomed, loosed, looses, meloid, mioses, miosis, misled, mislie, missed, missel, models, moiled, molies, mossed, oldies.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-i-l-m-o-o-s-s"
 

+3 letters: demolitionists.

 

+4 letters: epidemiologists.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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