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Definition: NSAID |
NSAIDNoun1. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids; "NSAIDs inhibit the activity of both Cox-1 and Cox-2 enzymes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NSAID | English | Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs | Medicine |
Nsaid | Italian | Analgesici-antinfiammatori non steroidi | N/A |
NSAID | Spanish | Fármacos antiinflamatorios no esteroideos | Medicine |
NSAID | Swedish | Non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NSAIDSynonyms: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (n), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (medicine), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory product. |
| "NSAID" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 79.45% of the time. "NSAID" is used about 146 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 (proper) | 79.45% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.07% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 3.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
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 |
nsaid | 96 |
drug nsaid | 6 |
anaphylaxis nsaid | 3 |
nsaid toxicity | 3 |
bone fracture nsaid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NSAID": gainsaid, unsaid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: aids, ains, ands, anis, dais, dins, sadi, said, sain, sand. | |
-2 letters: ads, aid, ain, ais, and, ani, din, dis, ids, ins, sad, sin. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, an, as, id, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: adonis, canids, danios, danish, dinars, divans, diwans, drains, island, nadirs, naiads, nicads, ranids, sained, sandhi, unsaid, viands. | |
+2 letters: adjoins, aldrins, amidins, aniseed, audings, avidins, bandies, bandits, basined, candids, candies, cyanids, daikons, daimons, dandies, darings, dashing, denials, destain, detains, diamins, diazins, dioxans, disband, discant, disdain, dishpan, distain, distant, domains, durians, fadeins, fadings, ganoids, gradins, incased, indabas, indusia, inlands, innards, inroads, instead, invades, inwards, islands, kidnaps, ladings, ladinos, ligands, maidens, mantids, medians, medinas, naiades, nandins, navaids, ordains, pandies, pandits, qindars, radians, randies, ribands, sadiron, sainted, sandhis, sandier, sanding, sandpit, sardine, scandia, scandic, shading, sideman, siganid, snailed, spading, stained, sundial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 53 41 49 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ... .- .. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010011 01000001 01001001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N S A I D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0053 0041 0049 0044 |
| 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)4853354338 |
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