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Definition: Spondylitis |
SpondylitisNoun1. Inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Inflammation of the spine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Spondylitis |
| English words defined with "spondylitis": ankylosing spondylitis ♦ Marie-Strumpell disease ♦ rheumatoid spondylitis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spondylitis": Brucella suis infection ♦ contagious abortion of sows ♦ HLA-B27 Antigen, human leucocyte antigen ♦ porcine brucellosis ♦ swine brucellosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spondylitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (spondylitis), German (spondylitis). |
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Health | Extremely variable, including granulomatous hepatitis, peripheral arthritis, spondylitis, anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, meningitis, uveitis, optic neuritis, papilledema, and endocarditis. (references) | |
Millions of Americans suffer from arthritic conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and gout. These disorders are characterized by joint pain in the extremities. (references) | ||
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| "Spondylitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spondylitis" 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 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spondylitis": Ankylosing spondylitis ♦ rheumatoid spondylitis ♦ spondylitis deformans. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "spondylitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спонделит, възпаление на гръбначния стълб. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spondylitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spondylitis (ankylosing spondylitis), spodylitis (vertebrae inflammation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | selkärankatuberkuloosi (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), selkärangan nivelrikko (poker back, spondylitis deformans), tuberkuloottinen spondyliitti (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), Pottin tauti (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spondylite (f), spondylite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spondylitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πότειο κακό (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), φυματιώδης σπονδυλίτιδα (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), αγκυλοποιητική σπονδυλαρθρίτιδα (poker back, spondylitis deformans), αγκυλοποιητική σπονδυλίτιδα (ankylosing spondylitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spondilite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ondylitisspay espondilite. (various references) спондилит. (various references) mal de Pott (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), espondilitis tuberculosa (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), espondilitis deformante (poker back, spondylitis deformans), enfermedad de Pott (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references) spondylosis deformans (poker back, spondylitis deformans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spondylitis": spondylitises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: spinosity. | |
-3 letters: diplonts, diplosis, idylists, pilosity, pinitols, solidity, tolidins, tylosins. | |
-4 letters: diplont, distils, idylist, instils, isospin, lipoids, noisily, pinitol, piosity, pistils, pistols, pistons, pontils, postins, spindly, spintos, splints, stonily, styloid, tipsily, tolidin, tonsils, tylosin. | |
-5 letters: dipsos, distil, dossil, idiots, indols, insist, instil, iodins, lipids, lipins, lipoid, lysins, nosily, odists, opsins, pilots, pinots, pintos, pistil. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-n-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: spondylitises. | |
+4 letters: dispassionately, serendipitously. | |
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