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Definition: Acromegalia |
AcromegaliaNoun1. Enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AcromegaliaSynonym: acromegaly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Acromegalia |
| Etymologies containing "acromegalia": Acromegaly. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Acromegalia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (acromegalia, acromegaly). |
| 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 |
acromegalia | 37 |
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| Language | Translations for "acromegalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | acromegalia (acromegaly). (various references) | |
Ukranian | акромегалія (acromegaly). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-g-i-l-m-o-r" | |
-3 letters: acromial, calamari. | |
-4 letters: acerola, acromia, calamar, calorie, camelia, cameral, caramel, cariole, ceramal, claimer, coalier, coremia, glacier, glomera, gomeral, gomeril, gracile, gremial, grimace, loamier, loricae, magical, malaria, miracle, reclaim, regalia. | |
-5 letters: aecial, aerial, agamic, agaric, aglare, agleam, agorae, alegar, amoral, areola, argala, argali, caeoma, cagier, calami, calmer, camail, camera, caroli, clamor, coaler, coiler, cormel, eclair, galore, gamier, gaoler, garlic, glaire, glamor, glioma, gloria, goalie, imager, laager, lacier, lamiae, logier, lorica, maigre, mailer, malgre, malice, maraca, marcel, milage, mirage, moiler, morale, oracle, orgiac, racial, realia, recoal, recoil, remail. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 72 6F 6D 65 67 61 6C 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .-. --- -- . --. .- .-.. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01101101 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c r o m e g a l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0072 006F 006D 0065 0067 0061 006C 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3569848179717367787567 |
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