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Definition: Rhabdomyosarcoma |
RhabdomyosarcomaNoun1. A highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A malignant tumor of muscle tissue. (references) |
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Synonym: RhabdomyosarcomaSynonym: rhabdosrcoma (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rhabdomyosarcoma |
| English words defined with "rhabdomyosarcoma": alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, alveolar rhabdosarcoma ♦ embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, embryonal rhabdosarcoma ♦ pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma, pleomorphic rhabdosarcoma. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rhabdomyosarcoma": Moloney Sarcoma Virus. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Rhabdomyosarcoma, also called rhabdosarcoma, is a type of soft tissue sarcoma arising from muscle cells. (references) | |
Although rhabdomyosarcoma tends to grow and spread very rapidly, fortunately its symptoms are quite obvious compared to those of other forms of childhood cancer. (references) | ||
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| "Rhabdomyosarcoma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rhabdomyosarcoma" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rhabdomyosarcoma": alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma ♦ embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma ♦ pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma. 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 |
rhabdomyosarcoma | 120 |
cell rhabdomyosarcoma spindle | 8 |
pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma | 4 |
embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma | 4 |
alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma | 3 |
david rhabdomyosarcoma wilson | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "rhabdomyosarcoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rhabdomyosarkom (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rhabdomyosarcoma (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rabdomyosarkooma (rhabdosarcoma), poikkijuovaislihassarkooma (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rhabdosarcome (rhabdosarcoma), rhabdomyosarcome (rhabdosarcoma), rhabdoblastique rhabdomyoblastome (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rhabdomyosarkom (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ραβδομυοσάρκωμα (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rabdomiosarcoma (rhabdosarcoma), rabdomioma maligno (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abdomyosarcomarhay rabdomiossarcoma (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) rabdosarcoma (rhabdosarcoma), rabdomiosarcoma (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) rabdomyosarkom (rhabdosarcoma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "rhabdomyosarcoma": rhabdomyosarcomas, rhabdomyosarcomata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-c-d-h-m-m-o-o-o-r-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: rhabdomyosarcomas. | |
+2 letters: rhabdomyosarcomata. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 68 61 62 64 6F 6D 79 6F 73 61 72 63 6F 6D 61 |
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