Acanthosis Nigricans

  

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Acanthosis Nigricans

Definition: Acanthosis Nigricans

Acanthosis Nigricans

Noun

1. A skin disease characterized by dark wart-like patches in the body folds; can be benign or malignant.

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Specialty Definitions: Acanthosis Nigricans

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Health

A circumscribed melanosis consisting of a brown-pigmented, velvety verrucosity or fine papillomatosis appearing in the axillae and other body folds. It occurs in association with endocrine disorders, underlying malignancy, administration of certain drugs, or as in inherited disorder. (references)

Medicine

2. a rare condition presenting numerous superficial, pigmented papillomatous growths on many portions of the body and occasionally on the conjunctiva. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Acanthosis Nigricans

Synonym: keratosis nigricans (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acanthosis Nigricans

Non-English Usage: "Acanthosis Nigricans" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (acanthosis nigricans, rhizopus nigricans).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acanthosis Nigricans

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.
 
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acanthosis nigricans

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Modern Translations: Acanthosis Nigricans

Language Translations for "acanthosis nigricans"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

acanthosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Acanthosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans), ziekte van Darier (ichthyosis sebacea HEBRA-KAPOSI, keratosis follicularis, keratosis nigricans), keratosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

acanthosis nigricans. (various references)

   

French

  

Achantosis nigricans, acanthosis nigricans, dystrophie papillaire et segmentaire. (various references)

   

German

  

Acanthosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans), Schwarzwucherhaut (keratosis nigricans), Dystrophia papillaris et pigmentosa (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μελανωτική ακάνθωση, μελανίζουσα ακάνθωση, υπεμέλας ακανθίασις (keratosis nigricans), ακανθωτική μελανοδερμία (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acanthosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans), distrofia papillare pigmentaria (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acanthosisay igricansnay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

acantose nigricans (keratosis nigricans), distrofia papilar e pigmentar (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acantosis nigricans (keratosis nigricans). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Acanthosis Nigricans

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

acanthosis nigricans. (various references)

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Anagrams: Acanthosis Nigricans

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-g-h-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-r-s-s-s-t"

-4 letters: saccharisations.

-5 letters: saccharisation.

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Alternative Orthography: Acanthosis Nigricans


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 61 6E 74 68 6F 73 69 73      4E 69 67 72 69 63 61 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 00100000 01001110 01101001 01100111 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115 &#32 &#78 &#105 &#103 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0061 006E 0074 0068 006F 0073 0069 0073      004E 0069 0067 0072 0069 0063 0061 006E 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356967808674818575852487573847569678085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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