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PHLEGMON

Definition: PHLEGMON

PHLEGMON

Noun

1. Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Phlegmon \Phleg"mon\, noun. [Latin expression phlegmone, phlegmon, inflammation beneath the skin, Greek, from to burn: compare to the French expression phlegmon.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PHLEGMON

English words defined with "PHLEGMON": Phlegmonous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "PHLEGMON": flegmon or phlegmon. (references)

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Expression: PHLEGMON

Expression using "PHLEGMON": flegmon or phlegmon. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHLEGMON

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.
 
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per Day

  phlegmon

11
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Modern Translations: PHLEGMON

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

Bulgarian 

  

флегмон. (various references)

   

Danish

  

phlegmone (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)), flegmone, cellulitis (cellulitis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

phlegmone, phlegmona, flegmone (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

flegmoni. (various references)

   

French

  

phlegmon. (various references)

   

German

  

Phlegmone (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)), Phlegmona. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φλέγμονας. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kötõszövet-gyulladás (fibrositis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

flemmone (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egmonphlay

   

Portuguese

  

fleimão glandular (glandular phlegmon), fleimão cervical descendente (descendent cervical phlegmon), fleimão cervical (phlegmon of soft cervical parts), fleimão (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

flegmon. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

флегмона. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

flegmona. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

flemón (diffuse abscess). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flegmon. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

флегмона. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PHLEGMON"

Words rhyming with "PHLEGMON" (pronounced 'Phleg"mon'): Cacodemon, demon, Gnomon, Hieromnemon, ichneumon, mammon, Persimmon, Plasmon, Resummon, summon, uncommon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PHLEGMON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-l-m-n-o-p"

-2 letters: holpen, phenol, phenom, phlegm, phloem.

-3 letters: genom, gnome, golem, lemon, longe, melon, mohel, pelon, pengo, phone.

-4 letters: enol, glen, glom, glop, gone, helm, helo, help, hemp, hole, holm, holp, home, hone, hong, hope, leno, loge, lone, long, lope, meno, mole, mope, noel, nome, nope, ogle, omen, open, peon, phon, poem, pole, pome, pone.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-l-m-n-o-p"
 

+5 letters: encephalogram, phenomenology.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PHLEGMON


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

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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)

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Bibliographic Items: "PHLEGMON"


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