Stenosis

Definition: Stenosis

Stenosis

Noun

1. Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway.

Etymology: Stenosis \Ste*no"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression narrow.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	Narrowing or stricture of a duct or canal. (references)
Medicine	The constriction or narrowing of an orifice or the lumen of a hollow or tubular organ. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Stenosis

Synonym: stricture (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Spinal Stenosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Cheirolumbar dysostosis : developmental brachycheiry and stenosis of the bony vertebral lumbar canal (reference) Coronary Artery Stenosis (reference) Coronary Stenosis Morphology: Analysis and Implication (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 190) (reference) Stenosis of the Cervical Spine: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	This photo of cardiovascular syphilis shows coronary artery stenosis, a feature of late syphilis. The ostia of both coronary arteries are markedly stenosed. Note the "tree-bark" effect in the intimal lining of the aorta just superior to the aortic valve. Credit: CDC.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The most common blood vessel disease that causes stenosis is atherosclerosis. (references)
		Mitral stenosis can also cause interstitial edema with a normal-sized cardiac silhouette. (references)
		Spinal stenosis . Surgical pain . Temporomandibular disorders are conditions in which the temporomandibular joint. (references)
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"Stenosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stenosis" is used about 96 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%	96	33,456

Expressions using "stenosis": aortic stenosis ♦ Aortic Valve Stenosis ♦ Carotid Stenosis ♦ Discrete Subaortic Stenosis ♦ Esophageal Stenosis ♦ mitral stenosis ♦ Mitral Valve Stenosis ♦ Papillary Stenosis ♦ pulmonary stenosis ♦ Pulmonary Subvalvular Stenosis ♦ Pyloric Stenosis ♦ Spinal Stenosis ♦ tricuspid stenosis ♦ tricuspid valve stenosis. 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.

Language		Translations for "stenosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stenozë, ngushtim kanali. (various references)

Bulgarian		стеснение (abashment, constraint, qualm, uneasiness), стеноза. (various references)

Chinese		狭窄 (Narrow, Petty). (various references)

Danish		stenose. (various references)

Dutch		stenose (duct narrowing). (various references)

Finnish		stenosis valvae tricuspidalis (tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid valve stenosis), stenosis valvae mitralis (mitral stenosis), stenosis aortae (aortic stenosis), selkärankakanavan rakenteellinen ahtaus (constitutional lumbar stenosis, constitutional lumbosacral stenosis), selkärankakanavan hankinnainen ahtaus (acquired lumbar stenosis, acquired lumbosacral stenosis), valtimostenoosi (arterial stenosis), valtimon ahtauma (arterial stenosis), trikuspidaaliläpän stenoosi (tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid valve stenosis), mitraalistenoosi (mitral stenosis), lannerankakanavan ahtaus (lumbar stenosis, lumbosacral stenosis), kolmiliuskaläpän ahtauma (tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid valve stenosis), hiippaläppästenoosi (mitral stenosis), hiippaläpän ahtauma (mitral stenosis), aorttastenoosi (aortic stenosis), aortta-ahtauma (aortic stenosis). (various references)

French		sténose, rétrécissement (stricture). (various references)

German		Stenose. (various references)

Greek		στένωση (batter, constriction, narrowing, obstruction). (various references)

Hebrew		�"צרות (striction, stricture, taper). (various references)

Hungarian		szûkület. (various references)

Italian		stenosi (narrowing, narrowness, stricture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		狭窄 (contraction, stricture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうさく (bad harvest, competition for better work, contraction, poor crop, stricture). (various references)

Korean		협착증. (various references)

Pig Latin		enosisstay

Portuguese		estenose. (various references)

Russian		стеноз (stenoses). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		suženje (constriction, isthmus), stenoza. (various references)

Spanish		estenosis. (various references)

Ukrainian		стеноз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "stenosis" (pronounced 'Ste*no"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sonsiest.
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-s-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: essoins, nosiest, osseins, session.
	-2 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, insets, noesis, noises, onsets, ossein, setons, sonsie, steins, stenos, stones, tosses.
	-3 letters: eosin, inset, neist, nests, nites, noise, noses, notes, onset, senti, seton, sines, sises, sites, snits, snots, sones, stein, steno, sties, stone, stoss, tines, tones.
	-4 letters: eons, into, ions, ness, nest, nets, nite, nits, noes.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-s-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: essonites, moistness, sootiness, stoniness, stonishes.
	+2 letters: assertions, astonishes, cessations, costliness, frostiness, hessonites, hostessing, otioseness, ringtosses, sensations, sensuosity, siltstones, snootiness, snottiness, sportiness, spottiness, stockiness, stodginess, storminess.
	+3 letters: assoilments, coltishness, costiveness, dissections, dissentions, dissentious, dissolvents, distensions, doltishness, dottinesses, ghostliness, iconostases, jointresses, loftinesses, loutishness, moistnesses, necessitous, piteousness, riotousness, shoestrings, sinuosities, sootinesses, sottishness, spinosities, stonefishes, stoninesses, subsections, suggestions, synovitises, tediousness, tensionless, tyrosinases, viscountess.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
spinal stenosis	983	tracheal stenosis	15
stenosis	353	intestinal stenosis	13
pyloric stenosis	141	subaortic stenosis	12
aortic stenosis	138	spinal stenosis symptom	12
cervical stenosis	93	cervical spine stenosis	12
lumbar spinal stenosis	55	foraminal neural stenosis	12
lumbar stenosis	55	idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis	11
renal artery stenosis	42	urethral stenosis	11
cervical spinal stenosis	40	spinal stenosis exercise	10
carotid stenosis	39	mitral valve stenosis	10
foraminal stenosis	32	pulmonic stenosis	9
pulmonary stenosis	30	cervix stenosis	9
mitral stenosis	29	cranial stenosis	8
stenosis of the spine	26	pulmonary valve stenosis	8
spinal stenosis surgery	19	stenosis subglottic	8
spinal stenosis treatment	19	arterial stenosis	8
renal stenosis	19	aorta stenosis	8
meatal stenosis	17	cervical foraminal stenosis	6
carotid artery stenosis	16	group stenosis tracheal yahoo	6
aortic valve stenosis	15	discrete stenosis subaortic surgical treatment	5
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Stenosis

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