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Definition: Proctitis |
ProctitisNoun1. Inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Proctitis \Proc*ti"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression anus -itis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of the rectum. (references) |
Medicine | The inflammation of the rectal mucosa. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Proctitis |
| English words defined with "proctitis": Rectitis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Proctitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (proctitis), Dutch (proctitis). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Treatment depends on the cause of proctitis. (references) | |
Proctitis can be short term (acute) or long term (chronic). (references) | ||
Ulcerative colitis may also be called colitis, ileitis, or proctitis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Proctitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Proctitis" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
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 |
proctitis | 121 |
ulcerative proctitis | 23 |
proctitis radiation | 12 |
colitis proctitis ulcerative | 3 |
distal proctitis | 3 |
proctitis radiation treatment | 3 |
proctitis symptom | 2 |
proctitis treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "proctitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | proctitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | proctitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | proktiitti (rectitis), peräsuolen ja peräaukon tulehdus (rectitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | proctite/rectite, proctite, rectite, ano-rectite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Proktitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωκτίτιδα, ορθοπρωκτίτιδα (rectitis), ορθίτιδα (rectitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | proctite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | octitispray proctite. (various references) proctitis (rectitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "proctitis" (pronounced 'Proc*ti"tis'): Adenitis, Aortitis, Appendicitis, Arachnitis, Arteritis, Arthritis, Arthrochondritis, Blepharitis, Bronchitis, Bursitis, Capsulitis, Carditis, Cellulitis, Cerebritis, Cholecystis, Chondritis, Colitis, Colonitis, Compos-mentis, Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Dactylitis, Fetis, gastritis, Gastroduodenitis, gastroenteritis, Glossitis, Glottis, Gratis, hepatitis, iritis, keratitis, laminitis, laryngitis, leptomeningitis, lymphadenitis, Lymphangeitis, Macrocystis, mantis, mastitis, meningitis, Mephitis, metritis, Myelitis, myocarditis, Myositis, Myosotis, Nephritis, Nereocystis, Neuritis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tropistic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: opticist. | |
-2 letters: protist, soritic, tricots, tropics. | |
-3 letters: optics, otitic, otitis, picots, prosit, ptotic, ripost, script, spirit, strict, stript, topics, tricot, tripos, tropic. | |
-4 letters: coirs, corps, crisp, crops, optic, picot, pisco, ports, posit, prost, riots, rotis, scrip, spirt, sport, sprit, stirp, stoic, stopt, strip, strop, tipis, tiros, titis, toits, topic, topis, torcs, toric, torii, torsi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: prosciutti. | |
+3 letters: anticipators, antistrophic, crepitations, dictatorship, pictorialist, receptionist. | |
+4 letters: comparativist, corruptionist, dictatorships, ectoparasitic, interceptions, introspecting, introspection, introspective, micropipettes, opportunistic, pantisocratic, participators, perfectionist, petrifactions, pictorialists, pontificators, practitioners, precipitators, projectionist, protactiniums, protectionism, protectionist, protohistoric, receptionists, transcription, triplications, triploblastic. | |
+5 letters: astrophysicist, comparativists, contraposition, contrapositive, cooperationist, corruptionists, corticotropins, decrepitations, instructorship, introspections, overoptimistic, pantisocratist, participations, perfectionists, petrifications, picturizations, precipitations, productivities, projectionists, protectionisms, protectionists, streptobacilli, streptothricin, superpatriotic, transcriptions. | |
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