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Health | An inherited disorder characterized by many grape-like clusters of fluid-filled cysts that make both kidneys larger over time. These cysts take over and destroy working kidney tissue. PKD may cause chronic renal failure and end-stage renal disease. (references) |
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Crosswords: POLYCYSTIC |
| Specialty definitions using "POLYCYSTIC": Hyperandrogenism ♦ Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. (references) |
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Gross pathology of polycystic kidneys. Ureters are visible. Credit: CDC. | Patient also had polycystic kidneys. Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys. (references) | |
Approximately 2 percent of individuals with TSC develop large numbers of cysts in a pattern similar to polycystic kidney disease during childhood. (references) | ||
These include polycystic ovarian syndrome, which may cause menstrual disturbances, weight gain from adolescence, excess hair growth and sometimes impaired insulin action and diabetes. (references) | ||
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| "POLYCYSTIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POLYCYSTIC" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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Expressions using "POLYCYSTIC": polycystic kidney ♦ polycystic kidney disease ♦ Polycystic Kidney Diseases ♦ Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "POLYCYSTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | polycystiske nyrer (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), polycystisk nyre (polycystic kidney), renes polycystica (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), cystenyre (polycystic kidney). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | polycystosis renis (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), polycystose renis (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), ren cysticus (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), cystennier (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | munuaisten polykystinen tauti (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), munuaisten monirakkulatauti (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), morbus polycysticus renum (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | polykystose rénale du type adulte (polycystic renal disease), polykystose rénale (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), rein microkystique (polycystic kidney), maladie kystique des reins (polycystic renal disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Zystenniere (cystic kidney, polycystic renal disease), Wabenniere (polycystic kidney), Nierenzyste (cystic kidney, polycystic renal disease, renal cyst). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | πολυκυστική νεφροπάθεια (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | rene policistico (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney, polycystic kidney disease), malattia policistica del rene (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | olycysticpay poliquistosis renal (autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, congenital polycystic disease, polycystic kidney disease), riñón poliquístico (polycystic kidney). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | renes polycystica. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-o-p-s-t-y-y" | |
-3 letters: copyist, cyclist, cyclops. | |
-4 letters: colics, cosily, costly, cyclos, cystic, octyls, optics, picots, pilots, pistol, policy, polity, spoilt, topics. | |
-5 letters: cisco, clips, clipt, clits, clops, clots, cloys, coils, colic, colts, coyly, cyclo, lotic, lytic, octyl, optic, picot, pilot, pisco, plots, ploys, polis, polys, posit, potsy, silty, slipt, spicy, spilt, split, spoil, stoic, styli, tipsy. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-o-p-s-t-y-y" | |
+3 letters: psychotically. | |
+4 letters: psychoanalytic. | |
+5 letters: cytoplasmically, sycophantically. | |
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