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Definition: Prostatitis |
ProstatitisNoun1. Inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Prostatitis \Pros`ta*ti"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Prostate, and -itis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of the prostate. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Protstatis may account for up to 25 percent of all office visits by young and middle-age men for complaints involving the genital and urinary systems. The term prostatitis actually encompasses four disorders:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prostatitis."
Crosswords: Prostatitis |
| English words defined with "prostatitis": vasovesiculitis, vesiculitis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prostatitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (prostatitis), Dutch (prostatitis), German (prostatitis), Spanish (prostatitis). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chronic bacterial prostatitis is also relatively uncommon. (references) | |
Chronic prostatitis means the prostate gets inflamed over and over again. (references) | ||
The most common form of prostatitis is not associated with any known infecting organism. (references) | ||
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| "Prostatitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prostatitis" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "prostatitis": chronic prostatitis. 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 "prostatitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 前列腺炎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prostatitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prostatitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prostatite (f), prostatite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prostatitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prosztatagyulladás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prostatite (prostitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 립 염. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostatitispray prostatite. (various references) простатит. (various references) prostatitis. (various references) простатит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prostatitis": prostatitises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prostatitis" (pronounced 'Pros`ta*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 | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: parotitis. | |
-3 letters: airposts, patriots, prosaist, protasis, protists, satirist, sitarist. | |
-4 letters: airpost, aorists, aristos, artists, pastors, patriot, pissoir, protist, rapists, riposts, satoris, spirits, statist, stators, straits, tsarist. | |
-5 letters: aorist, ariosi, aristo, artist, assort, otitis, ottars, pastis, pastor, patios, patois, posits, prosit, ptosis, rapist, ratios, ripost, roasts, sapors, satori, sistra, sitars, spaits, spirit, spirts, sports, sprats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-o-p-r-s-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: portraitists. | |
+2 letters: partitionists, prostatitises. | |
+3 letters: pantisocratist. | |
+4 letters: pantisocratists. | |
+5 letters: prestidigitators, transcriptionist. | |
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