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Acromegalia

Definition: Acromegalia

Acromegalia

Noun

1. 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: Acromegalia

Synonym: acromegaly (n). (additional references)

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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).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acromegalia

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acromegalia

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Acromegalia

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

Spanish

  

acromegalia (acromegaly). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

акромегалія (acromegaly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Acromegalia

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Acromegalia


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

41 63 72 6F 6D 65 67 61 6C 69 61

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01101101 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#114 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#103 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0072 006F 006D 0065 0067 0061 006C 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3569848179717367787567

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INDEX

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


  

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