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Definition: Teratogenic |
TeratogenicAdjective1. Of or relating to substances or agents that can interfere with normal embryonic development. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A substance which, through immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with the skin may involve a risk of subsequent non-heriditable birth defects in offspring(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Tending to produce anomalies of formation, or teratism (= anomaly of formation or development : condition of a monster). (references) |
Medicine | Causing abnormal development or malformations. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insalubrity | Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic. |
Unconformity | Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Teratogenic |
| Specialty definitions using "teratogenic": 6-Aminonicotinamide ♦ Aflatoxin B1, Aflatoxin M1, Alkylating Agents, Aminopterin ♦ Dioxins ♦ Etretinate ♦ Isotretinoin ♦ Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids ♦ Radioisotopes, Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon ♦ somatic effects, somatic effects of radiation ♦ T-2 Toxin, Tretinoin. (references) |
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| "Teratogenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Teratogenic" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
teratogenic | 17 |
agent teratogenic | 5 |
effects teratogenic | 4 |
drug teratogenic | 2 |
effects radiation teratogenic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "teratogenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | teratogen (teratogen, teratogenetic, teratogenic (niet: teratogen)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | teratogenen (teratogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | teratogeeni (teratogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toxique pour la reproduction (teratogenetic), tératogène (teratogenetic), substance tératogène (teratogen), agent tératogène (teratogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | teratogenetisch (teratogenetic), Teratogen (teratogen, teratogenetic, teratogenic (niet: teratogen)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράγοντας τερατογένεσης (teratogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teratogén. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | teratogeno (teratogen, teratogenetic, teratogenic (niet: teratogen)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이형. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eratogenictay teratogénio (teratogen). (various references) teratógeno (teratogen). (various references) teratogen (teratogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "teratogenic": teratogenicities, teratogenicity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: argentite, carnotite, cigarette, integrate, negotiate, orientate, recoinage, teratogen. | |
-3 letters: agenetic, aigrette, anoretic, argentic, carotene, catering, centiare, cogitate, contrite, cottager, creatine, creating, creation, erecting, erection, erogenic, gentrice, gerontic, gnattier, gratinee, increate, interact, interage, iterance, neoteric, reacting, reaction, reticent, rotating, taconite, tenorite, tetragon, traction, treating, trecento. | |
-4 letters: acetone, aconite, acrogen, anergic, arenite, argotic, ariette, carotin, carting, cattier, catting, centare, ceratin, certain, cigaret, citator, citrate, cittern, coagent, coating, cognate, coinage, cointer, coreign, corneae, cortege, coterie, cottage, cottier, crating, creatin, crenate, enactor, enteric, enticer, entreat, ergotic, erotica, garotte, generic, genetic, genitor, gittern, granite, grantee, gratine, greaten, ingrate, integer, intreat, iterant, iterate, nattier, negater, negator, nettier, nictate, nitrate, noticer, ocreate, orating, organic, ratteen, ratting, reagent, reenact, reginae, retinae, retting, ricotta, rotting, tacrine, taction, tangier, tantric, tarting, tearing, tentage, tentier, tergite, ternate, tertian, tetanic, tonetic, tracing, trainee, treeing, tritone. | |
-5 letters: acetin, acting, action, aeonic, agonic, aigret, aortic, arcing, argent, aroint, atoner, atonic, attire, attorn, cagier, canter, cantor, careen, caring, carnet, carnie, carton, cation, cattie, cenote, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cering, cerite, cetane, citron, coatee, coater, cogent, coigne, coiner, congee, conger, contra, coring, cornea, cornet, cortin, coting, cottae, cottar, cotter, craton, create, cretin, cringe, earing, eating, ecarte, enatic, encage, encore, engirt, enrage, entera, entice, entire, ergate, eringo, erotic, gainer, gaiter, garcon, garnet, garote, genera, gerent, getter, gitano, goatee, goiter, goitre, gotten, gratin, ignore, incage, ingate, intact, intort, natter, neater, nectar, negate, netter, noetic, norite, notate, notice, oaring, ocreae, octane, octant, onager, onagri, orange, orcein, orgeat, orgiac, orient, origan, ornate, racing, ratine, rating, ration, ratite, ratten, ratton, reagin, recane, recant, recent, recite, recoin, regain, regent, regina, region, retain, retina, retine, retint, rotate, rotten, tanrec, target, taring, teeing, tenace, teniae, tenrec, tenter, tentie, tercet, tierce, tinter, toeing, togate, tonger, tonier, torten, toting, tragic, trance, triage, tricot, triene, trigon, triton. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: expectorating, magnetometric. | |
+3 letters: electroplating, teratogenicity, thermomagnetic. | |
+4 letters: deconcentrating, electromagnetic, electronegative, intercollegiate, magnetoelectric, parthenogenetic, reconcentrating, reorchestrating. | |
+5 letters: anticonglomerate, countersignature, electromagnetism, enteropathogenic, intercorrelating, magnetostrictive, orthogenetically, overaccentuating, syncategorematic, teratogenicities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 72 61 74 6F 67 65 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-. .- - --- --. . -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e r a t o g e n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0072 0061 0074 006F 0067 0065 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471846786817371807569 |
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