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Definition: POLYPHARMACY |
POLYPHARMACYNoun1. A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients. 2. The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines. |
Etymology: Polypharmacy \Pol`y*phar"ma*cy\, noun. [Poly- Greek expression the using of medicine, from medicine: compare to the French expression polypharmacie.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Included in this should be assessment of the possibility of medication-induced erectile dysfunction with consideration for reduction of polypharmacy and/or substitution of medications with lower probability of inducing erectile dysfunction. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "POLYPHARMACY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POLYPHARMACY" 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 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
polypharmacy | 18 |
elderly in polypharmacy | 2 |
elderly polypharmacy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "POLYPHARMACY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | polypragmasia (polypragmasy), polypragmasi (polypragmasy). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | polypragmasie (polypragmasy). (various references) | ||||
French | polypragmasie (polypragmasy), polypharmacie (polypragmasy), polymédication. (various references) | ||||
German | Polypragmasie (polypragmasy). (various references) | ||||
Italian | polipragmasia (polypragmasy). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ポリシーに固執 (adherence to a policy, police, police academy, police court, polish remover, political apathy, political fiction, politician, politics, pollution, polycentrism, polyethylene bathtub, polyethylene bucket, polymer, polymorphism, Polynesia, polyphony, polypropylene, polystyrene, polystyrol, township). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ポリファーマシー . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olypharmacypay | ||||
| Words rhyming with "POLYPHARMACY" (pronounced 'Pol`y*phar"ma*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-l-m-o-p-p-r-y-y" | |
-2 letters: apocryphal. | |
-3 letters: apocrypha. | |
-4 letters: amphoral, apocarpy, approach, malaprop, pharmacy, polypary. | |
-5 letters: alchymy, amphora, apocarp, camphol, camphor, caporal, charpoy, chromyl, crayola, mayoral, palmary, palmyra, papyral, propyla. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 59 50 48 41 52 4D 41 43 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. -.--. .--. .... .- .-. -- .- -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01011001 01010000 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001101 01000001 01000011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L Y P H A R M A C Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 0059 0050 0048 0041 0052 004D 0041 0043 0059 |
| 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)504946595042355247353759 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danois, dänisch, danese |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, allemand, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italien, italienisch, italiano |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | Japonais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | Japonais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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