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Definition: Otosclerosis |
OtosclerosisNoun1. Hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The formation of spongy bone in the labyrinth capsule. The ossicles can become fixed and unable to transmit sound vibrations, thereby causing deafness. (references) |
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The condition can be cured by having a stapedectomy. This involves bypassing the stuck stapes by making a hole through it to the outer chamber of the inner ear and placing an artificial bone from the still moveable healthy hearing bones through the hole to the inner ear.
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Crosswords: Otosclerosis |
| Non-English Usage: "Otosclerosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (otosclerosis). |
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Health | Hearing loss is the most frequent symptom of otosclerosis. (references) | |
In many cases surgery is an option for treatment of otosclerosis. (references) | ||
If both parents have otosclerosis, the risk goes up to 50 percent. (references) | ||
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| "Otosclerosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Otosclerosis" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
otosclerosis | 101 |
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| Language | Translations for "otosclerosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 耳硬化. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | otosclerosis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | otosclerose. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | otosclérose /otospongiose. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Otosklerose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | otosclerosi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otosclerosisay otosclerose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: cloistress. | |
-3 letters: cloisters, coistrels, colessors, colorists, cortisols, crosslets, crossties, oestriols, sclerosis, scolioses, solecists, solstices. | |
-4 letters: cloister, coistrel, colessor, colorist, corslets, cortisol, costless, costlier, costrels, creosols, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, estriols, oestriol, ossicles, osteosis, ostioles, rissoles, rootless, rosolios, scooters, solecist, soloists, solstice, stoolies. | |
-5 letters: citoles, closers, closest, closets, coilers, colossi, colters, coolers, coolest, coolies, cooters, cooties. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-o-o-r-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: electroosmosis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 74 6F 73 63 6C 65 72 6F 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110100 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O t o s c l e r o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0074 006F 0073 0063 006C 0065 0072 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)498681856978718481857585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese, chinês |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, danese, dinamarquês |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, francese, francês |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemão |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês |
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