Prednisone

Definition: Prednisone

Prednisone

Noun

1. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant.

Specialty Definition: Prednisone

Domain	Definition
Health	A synthetic anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid derived from cortisone. It is biologically inert and converted to prednisolone in the liver. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Prednisone

Synonyms: Deltasone (n), Liquid pred (n), Meticorten (n), Orasone (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Prednisone

Domain	Title
Books	Coping With Prednisone and Other Cortisone-Related Medicines : It May Work Miracles, but How Do You Handle the Side Effects? (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Prednisone

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Commonly used drugs are prednisone and cytoxan. (references)
		Both prednisone and azathioprine have side effects. (references)
		Examples of such drugs include dexamethasone, methylprednisolone, and prednisone. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Prednisone

"Prednisone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prednisone" is used about 15 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%	15	90,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prednisone

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
prednisone	2,903	drug prednisone	10
prednisone side effects	345	effects long prednisone side term	10
prednisone dog	59	arthritis prednisone	9
prednisone withdrawal	36	dog effects prednisone side	9
prednisone dosage	31	allergy prednisone	9
effects prednisone	28	prednisone symptom withdrawal	9
information prednisone	23	diabetes prednisone	8
prednisone pregnancy	23	effects prednisone side taking	8
alcohol prednisone	20	cancer prednisone	8
affect prednisone side	18	prednisone used	8
apo prednisone	15	jerry lewis prednisone	7
canine prednisone	14	prednisone 20mg	6
prednisone for cat	14	prednisone withdrawl	6
dog effects in prednisone side	14	prednisone reaction	6
prednisone weight gain	13	effects long prednisone term	6
prednisone alternative	13	precaution prednisone	6
prednisone poison ivy	13	animal prednisone	5
asthma prednisone	12	prednisone steroid	5
medication prednisone	12	prednisone tapering	5
prednisone use	11	prednisone drug interaction	5
		prednisone 10mg	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prednisone

Language		Translations for "prednisone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		强�"松. (various references)

Danish		prednison. (various references)

Dutch		prednison. (various references)

Finnish		prednisoni. (various references)

French		prednisone, prédnisone. (various references)

German		Prednison. (various references)

Italian		prednisone. (various references)

Pig Latin		ednisonepray

Portuguese		prednisona. (various references)

Russian		преднизон. (various references)

Spanish		prednisona. (various references)

Swedish		prednison. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Prednisone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "prednisone": prednisones. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Prednisone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: pensioned, pensioner.
	-2 letters: indorsee, isoprene, pensione, pioneers, prisoned, repinned.
	-3 letters: deniers, depones, deposer, dineros, dinners, donnees, endorse, endrins, episode, erepsin, indenes, indorse, nereids, openers, ordines, oreides, orpines, penners, pennies, pension, peonies, pereion, periods, pinders, pinenes, pinners, pinones, pioneer, ponders, preside, reopens, repined, repines, reposed, resined, respond, ripened, rosined, sordine, speired, spender, spiered, spinner.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: prednisones.
	+2 letters: overspending, prednisolone, pretensioned.
	+3 letters: nondispersive, prednisolones, predominances, underexposing.
	+4 letters: antidepression, nondescriptive, overresponding, predestination, predominancies, preordainments, superconfident.
	+5 letters: antidepressions, depersonalizing, predestinations, preponderancies, preponderations.
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