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Definition: STRUVITE |
STRUVITENoun1. A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia. |
Etymology: Struvite \Struv"ite\, noun. [After the Russian minister Von Struve.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A type of kidney stone caused by infection. (references) |
Mining | An orthorhombic mineral, (NH4 )MgPO4 .6H2 O ; soft;has one perfect and one good cleavage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STRUVITE |
| Specialty definitions using "STRUVITE": Urinary Calculi. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This type of stone is called a struvite or infection stone. (references) | |
As mentioned above, struvite stones can form in people who have had a urinary tract infection. (references) | ||
If struvite stones cannot be removed, your doctor may prescribe a drug called acetohydroxamic acid (AHA). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
crystal struvite | 12 |
struvite | 12 |
stone struvite | 7 |
feline stone struvite | 4 |
cat crystal in struvite | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRUVITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | struvitsten (struvite stones, struvite uroliths). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uvitestray | ||||
| Words rhyming with "STRUVITE" (pronounced 'Struv"ite'): Arkite, Arsenopyrite, Braunite, Bronzite, Brookite, Brushite, Cabrerite, Chalcopyrite, Composite, Congenite, Cordite, Cushite, Danite, gahnite, Gibbsite, Glassite, Gnathite, graphite, Hicksite, Hussite, jadeite, Linarite, Linnaeite, Lyddite, marlite, Melanochroite, Miascite, Moroxite, Nerite, Perthite, Petzite, Prehnite, Priceite, Protomerite, Pyrite, Quartzite, ratite, Scaphite, scheelite, Semite, Servite, sporozoite, Turfite, Voltzite, Zincite, Zoisite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: revuist, stuiver, trivets, virtues. | |
-2 letters: rivets, sitter, stiver, strive, suiter, titers, titres, triste, trivet, truest, turves, utters, verist, vertus, virtue, virtus. | |
-3 letters: etuis, rites, rives, rivet, sieur, siver, strut, sturt, suite, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trets, tries, trite, trues, trust, uteri, utter, verst, verts, vertu, viers, vires, virtu, virus. | |
-4 letters: erst, etui, ires, reis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
+3 letters: adventurist, destructive, divestiture, instructive, investiture, obstructive, subtractive, vituperates. | |
+4 letters: adventurists, attributives, constructive, distributive, divestitures, illustrative, investitures, multiversity, obstructives, posteruptive, recultivates, triumvirates, ultraviolets, virtualities, virtuosities, viticultures, vituperators. | |
+5 letters: adventuristic, destructively, destructivity, instructively, obstructively, overstimulate, resuscitative, revolutionist, superactivity, transmutative, uninstructive, ventriloquist, vituperations. | |
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