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Definition: TONSILITIS |
TONSILITISNoun1. Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. |
Date "TONSILITIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Etymology: Tonsilitis \Ton`sil*i"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Tonsil, and -itis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "TONSILITIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TONSILITIS" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TONSILITIS": streptococcus tonsilitis. 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 |
tonsilitis | 44 |
symptom tonsilitis | 38 |
picture tonsilitis | 14 |
chronic tonsilitis | 9 |
adult tonsilitis | 8 |
tonsilitis treatment | 5 |
acute tonsilitis | 4 |
tonsilitis viral | 4 |
cure tonsilitis | 4 |
cause tonsilitis | 3 |
adult in tonsilitis | 2 |
cryptic tonsilitis | 2 |
hiv tonsilitis | 2 |
home remedy tonsilitis | 2 |
contagious tonsilitis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TONSILITIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Mandelentzündung (quinsy, tonsillitis). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | א 'י " (angina), "לקת שק"ים (tonsillitis). (various references) | ||||
Manx | keshleenys, keshleentys. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onsilitistay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-l-n-o-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: instils, tonsils. | |
-4 letters: insist, instil, otitis, stilts, stints, stotin, tonsil. | |
-5 letters: intis, linos, lints, lions, lists, loins, noils, silos, silts, slits, slots, snits, snots, soils, stilt, stint, tilts, tints, titis, toils, toits. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-l-n-o-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tonsillitis. | |
+2 letters: isolationist, pointillists. | |
+3 letters: abolitionists, antisocialist, coalitionists, distillations, inflationists, instillations, isolationists, solicitations, tonsillitises. | |
+4 letters: antisocialists, demolitionists, irrationalists, liberationists, scintillations, stabilizations, sterilizations, subtilizations. | |
+5 letters: assimilationist, inhospitalities, misutilizations, plasticizations, redistillations, stultifications, traditionalisms, traditionalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 4E 53 49 4C 49 54 49 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -. ... .. .-.. .. - .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O N S I L I T I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 004E 0053 0049 004C 0049 0054 0049 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54494853434643544353 |
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