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Definition: Pyelonephritis |
PyelonephritisNoun1. Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis caused by bacterial infection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, beginning in the interstitium and rapidly extending to involve the tubules, glomeruli, and blood vessels; due to bacterial infection. (references) |
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Crosswords: Pyelonephritis |
| English words defined with "pyelonephritis": acute pyelonephritis ♦ chronic pyelonephritis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pyelonephritis": Diabetic Nephropathies ♦ Kidney Papillary Necrosis ♦ Proteus vulgaris. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pyelonephritis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (pyelonephritis), Dutch (pyelonephritis), German (pyelonephritis). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Pyelonephritis is a kidney infection, usually from bacteria that spread from the bladder. (references) | |
An untreated or recurrent kidney infection can lead to chronic pyelonephritis, scarring of the kidneys, and permanent kidney damage. (references) | ||
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| "Pyelonephritis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pyelonephritis" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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Expressions using "pyelonephritis": acute pyelonephritis ♦ chronic pyelonephritis. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyelonephritis | 164 |
acute pyelonephritis | 10 |
chronic pyelonephritis | 6 |
article chronic pyelonephritis pyelonephritis | 3 |
emphysematous pyelonephritis | 2 |
diabetes pyelonephritis | 2 |
pyelonephritis symptom | 2 |
in pregnancy pyelonephritis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pyelonephritis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | pyelonephritis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pyelonephritis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pyélonéphrite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pyelonephritis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυελονεφρίτις από στάση ούρων (pyelonephritis of urinary stasis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pielonefrite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 우 염. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yelonephritispay pielonefrite. (various references) pielonefritis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: prehensility. | |
-3 letters: periphytons. | |
-4 letters: epistrophe, interlopes, leptospire, perihelion, periphyton, phenotypes, polytenies, polythenes, pristinely, propensity, propylenes, psilophyte, repletions, snippetier, terpineols. | |
-5 letters: entropies, epiphytes, epistoler, eyepoints, heliports, helotries, hornpipes, hoteliers, hyperopes, interlope, interpose, neophytes, nephrites, nephritis, peperonis, peristyle, petronels, phenetols, phenotype, pinstripe, pipelines, piperines, pipestone, pistoleer, polyester, polythene, presently, propylene, proselyte, replenish, repletion, resilient, rhyolites, rippliest. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: pyelonephritides. | |
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