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Definition: PHLEGMON |
PHLEGMONNoun1. Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue. |
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) |
Expression using "PHLEGMON": flegmon or phlegmon. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
phlegmon | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 fleimão glandular (glandular phlegmon), fleimão cervical descendente (descendent cervical phlegmon), fleimão cervical (phlegmon of soft cervical parts), fleimão (phlegmon (niet: flegmone)). (various references) flegmon. (various references) флегмона. (various references) flegmona. (various references) flemón (diffuse abscess). (various references) flegmon. (various references) флегмона. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "PHLEGMON" (pronounced 'Phleg"mon'): Cacodemon, demon, Gnomon, Hieromnemon, ichneumon, mammon, Persimmon, Plasmon, Resummon, summon, uncommon. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4C 45 47 4D 4F 4E |
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