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Definitions: SAPHENOUS |
SAPHENOUSAdjective1. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes. 2. Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man. |
Etymology: Saphenous \Sa*phe"nous\, adjective. [Greek expression manifest.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Applied to certain structures in the leg, e. g. nerve vein. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SAPHENOUS |
| English words defined with "SAPHENOUS": great saphenous vein ♦ long saphenous vein ♦ saphenous nerve, saphenous vein, short saphenous vein, superficial epigastric vein ♦ vena epigastrica superficialis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SAPHENOUS": Coronary Artery Bypass. (references) |
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Books | |
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| "SAPHENOUS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAPHENOUS" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SAPHENOUS": great saphenous vein ♦ long saphenous vein ♦ saphenous nerve ♦ Saphenous Vein ♦ short saphenous vein. 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 |
saphenous vein | 17 |
nerve saphenous | 6 |
saphenous | 4 |
saphenous surgery vein | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SAPHENOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 隐静脉. (various references) | |
Danish | saphena, vena saphena. (various references) | |
Dutch | verborgen (hidden, secret, veiled), niet door de huid zichtbaar. (various references) | |
French | saphène. (various references) | |
German | saphenus. (various references) | |
Greek | κάτω κέρας μηριαίου δρεπάνου μηριαίας περιτονίας (inferior horn, inferior horn of saphenous opening), κάτω κέρας (inferior horn, inferior horn of saphenous opening, inferior horn of thyroid cartilage). (various references) | |
Italian | safeno, safena. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aphenoussay.(various references) | |
Russian | относящийся к подкожной вене ноги. (various references) | |
Spanish | safena (saphena). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "SAPHENOUS" (pronounced 'Sa*phe"nous'): Alburnous, Binous, Concinnous, Dipyrenous, heinous, Impennous, Incanous, Inconcinnous, intravenous, Monopyrenous, Nasicornous, Nonnitrognous, Phagedenous, Pyrolignous, Quadricornous, Reciprocornous, Sphagnous, spinous, Stannous, Subspinous, Superspinous, Tauricornous, Unicornous, Vaginopennous, Vinous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: hausens. | |
-3 letters: anuses, aspens, hanses, hausen, houses, noshes, nouses, onuses, opuses, ouphes, paeons, paseos, pashes, pauses, phases, phones, pushes, season, shapen, shapes, shnaps, sneaps, speans, spouse, upases, usneas. | |
-4 letters: aeons, apses, ashen, ashes, aspen, ephas, hanse, hasps, heaps, hones, hopes, hosen, hoses, house, napes, neaps, noses, oases, opahs, opens, ouphe, ouphs, paeon, panes, paseo, pases, passe, pause, peans, peons, pesos, phase, phone, phons, pones, poses, posse, psoae, psoas, punas, puses, sanes, sensa, shape, sheas, shoes, shone, shops, shuns, snaps, snash, sneap, soaps, sones, sophs, soups, souse, spaes, spans, spean, spues, supes, usnea. | |
-5 letters: aeon, anes, anus, apes, apse, asps, eons, epha, epos, haen, haes, haps, hasp, heap, hens, hoes, hone, hons, hope, hops, hose, hues, huns, naos, nape, naps, neap, ness, noes, nope, nose, nosh, nous, ones, onus, opah, open, opes, opus, oses, ossa, ouph, pane, pans, pase, pash, pass, pean, peas, pehs, pens, peon, peso, phon, pone, pons, pose, posh, puna, puns, push, puss, sane, sans, saps, sash, seas, shea, shes, shoe, shop, shun, snap, soap, sone, sons, soph, sops, soup, sous, spae, span, spas, spue, spun, sues, suns, supe, sups, upas, upon, uses. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-o-p-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sousaphone. | |
+2 letters: houseplants, sousaphones. | |
+3 letters: autohypnoses, houseparents, polyanthuses. | |
+4 letters: amorphousness, housepainters, packinghouses. | |
+5 letters: amphibiousness, diaphanousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 50 48 45 4E 4F 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .--. .... . -. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01010000 01001000 01000101 01001110 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A P H E N O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0050 0048 0045 004E 004F 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533550423948495553 |
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