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Nephrosis

Definitions: Nephrosis

Nephrosis

Noun

1. A syndrome characterized by edema and large amounts of protein in the urine and usually increased blood cholesterol; usually associated with glomerulonephritis or with a complication of various systemic diseases.

2. A disease affecting the kidneys.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Nephrosis" is a common misspelling or typo for: nephritis.



Specialty Definitions: Nephrosis

DomainDefinitions

Health

Descriptive histopathologic term for renal disease without an inflammatory component. (references)

Medicine

A form of chronic kidney disease beginning in early childhood. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Nephrosis

Synonyms: kidney disease (n), nephropathy (n), nephrotic syndrome (n), renal disorder (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nephrosis

Specialty definitions using "nephrosis": Hepatorenal Syndromeinfantile nephrosisNephrosis, Lipoid, nephroticPuromycin Aminonucleoside. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Nephrosis

"Nephrosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nephrosis" 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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Expression: Nephrosis

Expression using "nephrosis": infantile nephrosis. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nephrosis

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

nephrosis

17

hydro nephrosis

3
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Modern Translations: Nephrosis

Language Translations for "nephrosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

nephrotisk syndrom, nefrose, nefritisk syndrom hos børn (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nephrosis, nefrotisch syndroom bij kinderen (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome), nefrotisch syndroom (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome), nefrose. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nefroottinen oireyhtymä (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

   

French

  

néphrose, syndrome néphrotique de l'enfant (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

   

German

  

Nephrosis, Nephrose. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νεφρωσικό σύνδρομο του παιδιού (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nefrosi, sindrome nefrosica del bambino (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ネオン管 (bottleneck, drip-dry, import restriction list, Is it so?, nack chain, Nebraska, neck, neckerchief, necking, necklace, neckline, necktie, necktie pin, necrophilia, necrophobia, nector, negative, negative color, neglect, negligee, negotiation, Nelson, neon tube, nepenta, nephron, nepotism, Neptune, neptunium, Nescafe, -ness, nest, nest table, nesting, Nestle, net, net ball, Net citizen, net in, net play, net price, net score, netball falling in, netizen, net-mask, nettopology, network, network administration, networker, networking, Nevada, Never give up!, Never happen, Never mind, next, no carbon, no-iron, permanent snowpatch, Really?, several tables inside each other, tie, wash and wear). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ネフローゼ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ephrosisnay

   

Portuguese

  

nefrose lipóide da gravidez (lipoid nephrosis of pregnancy), nefrose amilóide (amyloid nephrosis), nefrite túbulo-intersticial (chromoprotein kidney, lower nephron nephrosis), nefrite epitelial degenerativa (chromoprotein kidney, lower nephron nephrosis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

síndrome nefrótico infantil (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome), síndrome nefrótico del niño (infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Nephrosis"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nephrosis" (pronounced nufrō"sus)
5-r ō" s u sfibrosis, necrosis, neurosis.
4-ō" s u sacidosis, apotheosis, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, heterosis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, neurofibromatosis, prognosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, tuberculosis.
3-s u samniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, axis, catharsis, census, colossus, consensus, crisis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, nemesis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, rhesus, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, urinalysis, versus.

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Anagrams: Nephrosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: ropiness.

-2 letters: heroins, hipness, hosiers, inshore, noshers, orpines, persons, phonier, phonies, poisers, prisons, prossie, reships, senhors, seniors, shiners, shrines, siphons, snipers, sonship, sonsier, sophies, spinors, spinose.

-3 letters: enosis, eosins, ephori, ephors, essoin, heroin, herons, hisser, hoises, honers, hopers, horses, hosier, irones, noesis, noises, nosher, noshes, nosier, opines, opsins, orpine, orpins, osiers, ossein, perish, person, phones, pishes, pisser, poiser, poises, ponies, posers, posher, posies, prions, prises, prison, proses, repins, reship, resins, rhinos, rinses, ripens, rosins, seisor, senhor, senior, senors, sensor, serins, shiers, shiner, shines, shires, shoers, shores, shrine, siphon, sirens, sniper, snipes, snores, sonsie, speirs, spiers, spines, spinor, spires, spores.

-4 letters: eosin, ephor, heirs, herns, heron, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, honer, hones, hoper, hopes, horns, horse, hosen, hoses, irone, irons, noirs, noise, noris, noses, opens, opine, opsin, ornis, orpin, osier, peins, penis, peons, peris, pesos, phone, phons, piers, pines, pions, pirns, pisos, poise, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, press, pries, prion, prise, priss, prone, prose, pross, reins, repin, repos, resin, rhino, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, rises, ropes, roses, rosin, senor, serin, shier, shies, shine, shins, ships, shire, shoer, shoes, shone, shops, shore, shorn, shris, sines, sinhs, sipes, siren, sires, snipe, snips, snore, sones, sophs, sores, sorns, speir, spier, spies, spine, spins, spire, spore.

-5 letters: eons, epos, erns, eros, heir, hens, hern, hero, hers, hies, hins, hips, hire, hisn, hiss, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, hope, hops, horn, hose, inro, ions, ires, iron, ness, nips, noes, noir, nope, nori, nose, nosh, ones, open, opes, ores, oses, pehs, pein, pens, peon, peri, peso, phis, phon, pier, pies, pine, pins, pion, pirn, pish, piso, piss, pois, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, posh, pros, psis, rein, reis, repo, reps, resh, rhos, rins, ripe, rips, rise, roes, rope, rose, seis, sers, shes, shin, ship, shoe, shop, shri, sine, sinh, sins, sipe, sips, sire, sirs, snip, sone, sons, soph, sops, sore, sori, sorn, spin, sris.

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

+1 letter: censorship, ownerships, shipowners.

 

+2 letters: censorships, hotpressing, ionospheres, mentorships, prehensions, premonishes, senatorship, springhouse.

 

+3 letters: antistrophes, chairpersons, consumership, foremanships, horsemanship, misanthropes, parishioners, rhinoscopies, senatorships, sonographies, spinsterhood, springhouses, vaporishness.

 

+4 letters: apprehensions, attorneyships, consumerships, counselorship, endomorphisms, governorships, horsemanships, housepainters, hypertensions, inspectorship, iontophoreses, iontophoresis, misanthropies, morphogenesis, necrophilisms, nephrologists, phrenologists, prehistorians, pyrotechnists, relationships, reprehensions, rhinoplasties, scenographies, schizophrenes, siphonophores, spinsterhoods, stenographies, stereophonies, superheroines.

 

+5 letters: anticensorship, asthenospheric, bronchoscopies, cephalosporins, chemisorptions, cochairpersons, commanderships, comprehensions, containerships, copartnerships, counselorships, hyperconscious, inspectorships, landownerships, nonmemberships, nonperishables, phosphorescing, photofinishers, precentorships, psychoneurosis, schizophrenias, schizophrenics, spinthariscope, sportfisherman, sportfishermen, vaporishnesses, worshipfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nephrosis


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

4E 65 70 68 72 6F 73 69 73

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)

01001110 01100101 01110000 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#112 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0070 0068 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073

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

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

487182748481857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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