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Definition: PSORA |
PSORANoun1. A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch. |
"PSORA" is a common misspelling or typo for: poor, pore, soar, sore, spear, spore, spores, sporran, sport. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PSORA |
| English words defined with "PSORA": Psoric ♦ Salve bug. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PSORA": Psoriasis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PSORA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (psora). |
| "PSORA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PSORA" 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.
Expression using "PSORA": AEga psora. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
psora | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PSORA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prašivina (mange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rüh (mange, scab, scabies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taghys (itch, itchiness, scabies), soarey (smell, smelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orapsay psora. (various references) чесотка (itch, mange, scab, scabies), псориаз (psoriasis). (various references) šuga (mange, scabies). (various references) psoriasis (psoriasis). (various references) sedef hastalığı (psoriasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PSORA": psoralea, psoraleas, psoralen, psoralens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: praos, proas, sapor. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: oars, osar, pars, prao, proa, pros, raps, rasp, soap, soar, sora, spar. | |
-2 letters: ars, asp, oar, ops, ora, ors, par, pas, pro, rap, ras, sap, sop, spa. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, op, or, os, pa, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aprons, copras, operas, pareos, pargos, parols, parous, parson, parvos, pastor, payors, pharos, polars, sapors, sapour, soaper, sporal, upsoar, vapors. | |
+2 letters: airpost, apposer, apropos, barhops, captors, carhops, coppras, coprahs, esparto, orphans, pallors, parados, paramos, parasol, pardons, parlors, parlous, parodos, paroles, parrots, parsons, partons, pastors, patrols, patrons, paviors, pawnors, persona, picaros, poplars, portals, postwar, presoak, prolans, prosaic, prosoma, proteas, pyrolas, ragtops, raptors, reposal, sapours, saprobe, seaport, shophar, soapers, soapier, soprani, soprano, sparoid, sparrow, sporran, tarpons, uproars, upsoars, vapours. | |
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