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Definition: TOPHUS |
TOPHUSNoun1. Calcareous tufa. 2. One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium. |
Etymology: Tophus \To"phus\, noun; plural Tophi. [NL.: compare to the French expression tophus mineral concretion in the joint. See Toph.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A chalky deposit of sodium urate occurring in gout; tophi form most often around joints in cartilage, bone, bursae, and subcutaneous tissue and in the external ear, producing a chronic foreign-body inflammatory response. (references) |
Mining | See:tufa. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TOPHUS |
| English words defined with "TOPHUS": Chalkstone ♦ Tofus, Tophi. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TOPHUS": Toph. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TOPHUS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (tophus), Latin (loose, porous volcanic rock, tufa). |
| 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 |
tophus | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TOPHUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | туф (pepperino, tufa), зъбен камък (scale, tartar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tophi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tophus, tofus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tophus (m), tophus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tophus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τόφος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tofo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ophustay tofo. (various references) tartric. (various references) tofos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: upshot. | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ouphs, phots, phuts, pouts, shout, south, spout, stoup, thous, tophs. | |
-2 letters: hops, host, hots, huts, opts, opus, ouph, oust, outs, phot, phut, posh, post, pots, pout, push, puts, shop, shot, shut, soph, soth, soup, spot, stop, thou, thus, toph, tops, tosh, tups, tush. | |
-3 letters: hop, hot, hup, hut, ohs, ops, opt, out, pht. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: hotspur, outpush, typhous, upshoot, upshots. | |
+2 letters: aphthous, hotspurs, housetop, phaseout, pothouse, southpaw, superhot, taphouse, touchups, tuckshop, upshoots, upthrows. | |
+3 letters: boughpots, courtship, hornpouts, hospitium, housekept, housetops, hypocaust, outpushed, outpushes, penthouse, pesthouse, phaseouts, pitchouts, pothouses, pouchiest, southpaws, taphouses, tuckshops, tutorship, upgrowths, upholster. | |
+4 letters: authorship, autographs, autotrophs, auxotrophs, courtships, eutrophies, houseplant, hypocausts, hypotenuse, imposthume, mouthparts, outpitches, outpunches, outpushing, patchoulis, penthouses, pesthouses, phototubes, pilothouse, polyanthus, posthumous, postlaunch, pothunters, prothallus, turophiles, tutorships, upholsters, upholstery, upshooting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 50 48 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .--. .... ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01010000 01001000 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O P H U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0050 0048 0055 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)544950425553 |
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