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Definition: Trisomy |
TrisomyNoun1. Chrosomal abnormality in which there is one more than the normal number of chromosomes in a cell. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The possession of a third chromosome of any one type in an otherwise diploid cell. (references) |
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While a trisomy can occur with any of the chromosomes, the most common types (in humans) are:
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Crosswords: Trisomy |
| Specialty definitions using "trisomy": Amyloid beta-Protein. (references) |
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Health | However, it is important to realize that not all parents of individuals with translocation trisomy 21 are themselves balanced carriers. (references) | |
For parents of a child with Down syndrome due to translocation trisomy 21, there may be an increased likelihood of Down syndrome in future pregnancies. (references) | ||
In approximately 2-4% of cases, Down syndrome is due to mosaic trisomy 21. This situation is similar to simple trisomy 21, but, in this instance, the extra chromosome 21 is present in some, but not all, cells of the individual. (references) | ||
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| "Trisomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trisomy" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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Expressions using "trisomy": 18 trisomy ♦ chromosome 18 trisomy ♦ trisomy 18 ♦ trisomy 21 ♦ trisomy 21 syndrome ♦ trisomy D syndrome. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "trisomy": trisomy-21. | |
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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 "trisomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | trisomi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | trisomie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | Edwardsin oireyhtymä (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18), 18-trisomia (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | trisomie. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Trisomie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σύνδρομο Edwards (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18), τρισωμία 18 (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | trisomia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | isomytray trisomía 18 (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18), síndrome de Edwards (chromosome 18 trisomy, Edwards syndrome, trisomy 18). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stormy. | |
-2 letters: misty, moist, morts, omits, riots, rotis, ryots, stimy, storm, story, stroy, tiros, torsi, trims, trios, trois, troys, tyros. | |
-3 letters: mirs, miry, miso, mist, mity, mors, mort, most, mots, omit, orts, rims, rimy, riot, roms, rosy, roti, rots, ryot, smit, sori, sort, stir, tiro, toms, tori, tors, tory, toys, trim, trio, troy. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: isometry, midstory, morosity, ramosity, rimosity, stormily. | |
+2 letters: dosimetry, styliform. | |
+3 letters: biorhythms, microcytes, multistory, mysterious, osmolarity, rhytidomes, sociometry, spirometry, timorously, tiresomely, viscometry. | |
+4 letters: customarily, hypsometric, masticatory, matronymics, mayoralties, misanthropy, monstrosity, myocarditis, patronymics, plyometrics, postprimary, promiscuity, proselytism, pyrometries, seismometry, stimulatory, tensiometry, tropomyosin, xerophytism. | |
+5 letters: assimilatory, biochemistry, chymotrypsin, cryptomerias, cryptorchism, densitometry, embryologist, geochemistry, hydrotropism, hypothermias, isothermally, lachrymosity, macrocytosis, microanalyst, microcrystal, motorcyclist, multisensory, mysteriously, nonsymmetric, polycentrism, proselytisms, psychometric, respirometry, sensitometry, streptomycin, subnormality, transmogrify, tropomyosins, voluntaryism, wordsmithery, xerophytisms. | |
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