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Definition: Mononucleosis |
MononucleosisNoun1. An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The presence of an abnormally large number of mononuclear leucocytes (monocytes) in the blood. The term is often used alone to refer to infectious mononucleosis. (references) |
Medicine | An abnormal increase in the number of agranulocytes in the circulating blood. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: MononucleosisSynonyms: glandular fever (n), infectious mononucleosis (n), kissing disease (n), mono (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mononucleosis |
| English words defined with "mononucleosis": EBV, Epstein-Barr virus ♦ Forssman antibody ♦ heterophil antibody, heterophil test, heterophile antibody ♦ infectious mononucleosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mononucleosis": Epstein-Barr Virus Infections ♦ Herpesvirus 4, Human. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mononucleosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (mononucleosis). |
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 | The photo of an electron micrograph of HHV-6 also includes a labeled insert of the mature virus particle. The HHV-6 is a double stranded DNA virus of the herpes family. The virus particles shown here have matured and are then released from the lymphocyte which has been infected. The "owl's eye" appearance of the virus particles is characteristic of the herpes family. The HHV-6, or the human herpes virus-6, was thought to infect b-cells and was at one time called HBLV, human b-lymphotropic virus. It is now known to infect t-cells and is the cause of the childhood rash "roseola" and some cases of mononucleosis. Credit: Bernard Kramarsky (photographer). |  | At times non-infectious conjunctivitis, as well as other corneal abnormalities may manifest themselves due to the body's systemic response to viral infections such as infectious mononucleosis, or Epstein-Barr Virus. Credit: CDC. |
 | Tongue and palate of patient with infectious mononucleosis. Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | Due in part to its similarity to chronic mononucleosis, CFS was initially thought to be caused by a virus infection, most probably Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). (references) | |
This group includes the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores, fever blisters, mononucleosis, genital herpes a sexually transmitted disease, and Epstein-Barr virus involved in infectious mononucleosis. (references) | ||
A number of illnesses have been described that have a similar spectrum of symptoms to CFS. These include fibromyalgia syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, neurasthenia, multiple chemical sensitivities, and chronic mononucleosis. (references) | ||
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| "Mononucleosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mononucleosis" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mononucleosis": infectious mononucleosis. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "mononucleosis": mononucleosis-like. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "mononucleosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 单 白细胞增多症. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mononukleose (glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mononucleose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mononucléose (monocuclear leukocytosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mononukleose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λοιμώδης μονοπυρήνωση (glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mononucleosi (monocuclear leukocytosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腺熱 (glandular fever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"ねつ (glandular fever, latent heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ononucleosismay mononucleose. (various references) мононуклеоз. (various references) mononucleosis (monocuclear leukocytosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Mononucleosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mononewcleosis, mononucleiosis, mononucleois, mononucleosus, mononucleosys, mononucleousis, mononuclerosis, mononucliosis, monoucleosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-o-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: cloisonnes, monoclines, monoecious, semicolons. | |
-4 letters: cloisonne, coliseums, colonises, colosseum, eclosions, emulsions, lemniscus, looniness, monecious, monocline, nonmusics, seclusion, semicolon, simoleons, unloosens. | |
-5 letters: clonisms, clonuses, coliseum, colonies, colonise, conioses, consoles, consumes, coolness, coulises, coulisse, counsels, eclosion, elusions, emulsion, incloses, locoisms, meniscus, mescluns, monocles, monsoons, moonless, nonissue, nonmusic, nounless, nucleins, nucleons, oinomels, simoleon, solecism, uncloses, unloosen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 6F 6E 75 63 6C 65 6F 73 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. --- -. ..- -.-. .-.. . --- ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01101110 01110101 01100011 01101100 01100101 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n o n u c l e o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 006F 006E 0075 0063 006C 0065 006F 0073 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)47818081808769787181857585 |
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