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Definition: MUCOUS PATCHES |
MUCOUS PATCHES1. (Med.), elevated patches found in the mucous membranes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis. |
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 | Mucous patches form during the breakdown of mucous membranes, seen here on the inferior surface of the tongue. During the secondary stage of syphilis, mucous patches can also develop inside the mouth, vulva, and vagina. Credit: CDC. |  | An infant demonstrating mucous patches and skin lesions resulting from congenital syphilis. In 1998, 81.3% of reported cases of CS occurred because the mother received no penicillin treatment or inadequate treatment before or during pregnancy. Credit: CDC. |
 | Secondary Syphilis; Mucous Patches. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-m-o-p-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: moustaches. | |
-4 letters: accustoms, cachepots, capouches, cathouses, chassepot, moustache, mustaches, outpushes, outshames, phaseouts, soutaches, succotash, taphouses. | |
-5 letters: accustom, apothems, cachepot, cactuses, campuses, capuches, catchups, catechus, cathouse, caucuses, coassume, compacts, computes, costumes, housesat, matchups, moschate, mustache, outpaces, outshame, pachucos, pathoses, phaseout, potashes, putsches, scotches, scutches, seascout, shoepacs, smutches, soutache, spathose, stomachs, stuccoes, taphouse, teashops, touchups. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 55 43 4F 55 53 50 41 54 43 48 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01010101 01000011 01001111 01010101 01010011 00100000 01010000 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M U C O U S   P A T C H E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0055 0043 004F 0055 0053 0050 0041 0054 0043 0048 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)475537495553250355437423953 |
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