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NEPHRONS

"NEPHRONS" is a plural of: nephron.


Specialty Definition: NEPHRONS

DomainDefinition

Health

The functional units of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and the attached tubule. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: NEPHRONS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Every kidney has about a million nephrons. (references)

Each kidney contains about 1 million nephrons. (references)

But most kidney diseases destroy the nephrons slowly and silently. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEPHRONS

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

nephrons

7

juxtaglomerular nephrons

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: NEPHRONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-n-n-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: nephron.

-2 letters: ephors, herons, honers, hopers, nosher, person, phones, posher, senhor.

-3 letters: ephor, herns, heron, heros, hoers, honer, hones, hoper, hopes, horns, horse, hosen, neons, nones, opens, peons, phone, phons, pones, pores, porns, poser, prone, prose, repos, ropes, senor, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, snore, spore.

-4 letters: eons, epos, erns, eros, hens, hern, hero, hers.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-n-n-o-p-r-s"
 

+2 letters: alpenhorns, endorphins, prehension.

 

+3 letters: handyperson, nalorphines, pennyworths, prehensions.

 

+4 letters: anchorperson, apprehension, ctenophorans, handypersons, hypertension, nonspherical, pentahedrons, premonishing, reprehension.

 

+5 letters: anchorpersons, antiphonaries, apprehensions, comprehension, containership, enantiomorphs, hymenopterans, hymenopterons, hypertensions, landownership, nasopharynges, nasopharynxes, nonmembership, nonperishable, philodendrons, reprehensions, trephinations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEPHRONS


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

4E 45 50 48 52 4F 4E 53

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)

-.    .    .--.    ....    .-.    ---    -.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000101 01010000 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0050 0048 0052 004F 004E 0053

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

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

4839504252494853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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