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Definition: Uveitis |
UveitisNoun1. Inflammation of the uvea of the eye. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An inflammation of part or all of the uvea, the middle (vascular) tunic of the eye, and commonly involving the other tunics (the sclera and cornea, and the retina). (references) |
Medicine | Inflammation of part or whole of the uveal tract. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Uveitis |
| Specialty definitions using "uveitis": Arrestin ♦ Behcet's Syndrome, Busacca nodes, Busacca's nodules ♦ HLA-B27 Antigen ♦ Koeppe's nodules ♦ Pars Planitis ♦ Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ♦ Uveitis, Posterior. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Uveitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (uveitis), Dutch (uveitis), German (uveitis). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They are sometimes associated with eye surgery or advanced cataracts, eye injuries, certain eye tumors, or uveitis (eye inflammation). (references) | |
Extremely variable, including granulomatous hepatitis, peripheral arthritis, spondylitis, anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, meningitis, uveitis, optic neuritis, papilledema, and endocarditis. (references) | ||
Although anyone can experience a retinal detachment, people with certain eye conditions are at increased risk. Some examples of these conditions include posterior vitreous detachment, lattice degeneration, x-linked retinoschisis, degenerative myopia, and uveitis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Uveitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uveitis" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
uveitis | 172 |
anterior uveitis | 8 |
posterior uveitis | 7 |
equine uveitis | 6 |
chronic uveitis | 4 |
iritis uveitis | 3 |
equine recurrent uveitis | 2 |
canine uveitis | 2 |
masquerade syndrome uveitis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uveitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | uveitis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | uveitis. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | uvéite. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Uveitis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | uveite. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eitisuvay uveíte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uveitis": uveitises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: etuis, ivies, suite, visit. | |
-3 letters: etui, site, suet, suit, ties, tuis, vest, vets, vies, vise. | |
-4 letters: its, sei, set, sit, sue, tie, tis, tui, use, uts, vet, vie, vis. | |
-5 letters: es, et, is, it, si, ti, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: auditives, fugitives, intrusive, suavities, unvisited, uveitides, uveitises, vacuities, vestigium, viduities. | |
+3 letters: disruptive, intrusives, lentivirus, simulative, university, uvulitises, vulvitises. | |
+4 letters: acquisitive, antitussive, declivitous, diminutives, disjunctive, divestiture, eluviations, exclusivist, exclusivity, exuviations, inquisitive, insinuative, instructive, intrusively, investiture, stimulative, vertiginous, vesuvianite, vicissitude, viscounties, voyeuristic, vulgarities. | |
+5 letters: adventitious, antitussives, attributives, constitutive, disjunctives, disruptively, distributive, divestitures, evolutionism, evolutionist, exclusivists, exhaustivity, fugitiveness, illustrative, individuates, investitures, juvenilities, lentiviruses, multiservice, multiversity, nonintrusive, overutilizes, punitiveness, silviculture, subjectivise, subjectivism, subjectivist, subjectivity, subjectivize, substitutive, subvarieties, susceptivity, triumvirates, universalist, universality, universities, valvulitises, vasculitides, vermiculites, vesicularity, vesiculating, vesiculation, vesuvianites, vicissitudes, vinicultures, virtualities, virtuosities, viscountcies, viticultures, volubilities. | |
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