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MICROFILARIA

Specialty Definition: MICROFILARIA

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Health

The prelarval stage of Filarioidea in the blood and other tissues of mammals and birds. They are removed from these hosts by blood-sucking insects in which they metamorphose into mature larvae. (references)

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

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Crosswords: MICROFILARIA

Specialty definitions using "MICROFILARIA": Wuchereria bancrofti. (references)

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

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Photo Album: MICROFILARIA

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Mansonella ozzardi microfilaria. Giemsa stain. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria. Credit: CDC.

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

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Usage Frequency: MICROFILARIA

"MICROFILARIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MICROFILARIA" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MICROFILARIA

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

microfilaria

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: MICROFILARIA

Derivations

Words beginning with "MICROFILARIA": microfilariae, microfilarial. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MICROFILARIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-i-i-i-l-m-o-r-r"

-3 letters: orificial.

-4 letters: acromial, arciform, armorial, familiar, maiolica, miliaria.

-5 letters: aciform, acromia, airfoil, airmail, aliform, camorra, filaria, railcar.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-i-i-i-l-m-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: microfilariae, microfilarial.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MICROFILARIA


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

4D 49 43 52 4F 46 49 4C 41 52 49 41

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 01001001 01000011 01010010 01001111 01000110 01001001 01001100 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#70 &#73 &#76 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0043 0052 004F 0046 0049 004C 0041 0052 0049 0041

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

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

474337524940434635524335

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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