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Amaurosis

Definition: Amaurosis

Amaurosis

Noun

1. Partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Amaurosis \Am`au*ro"sis\, noun. [from Greek expression, from dark, diminutive]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Amaurosis

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

Partial or total blindness from any cause. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Amaurosis

English words defined with "amaurosis": amaurotic, AmblyopyGlasseye. (references)
Specialty definitions using "amaurosis": Amaurosis Fugax, amaurosis partialis fugaxDrop Serenepartial fugacious amaurosis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Amaurosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (amaurosis).

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Commercial Usage: Amaurosis

DomainTitle

Books

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Non-Fiction Usage: Amaurosis

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Health

Systemic diseases, such as Leber's congenital amaurosis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Down syndrome, and osteogenesis imperfecta. (references)

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Expressions: Amaurosis

Expressions using "amaurosis": Amaurosis Fugax amaurosis partialis fugax partial fugacious amaurosis. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amaurosis

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

  amaurosis fugax

35

  amaurosis congenital leber

8

  amaurosis

8

  amaurosis congenital lebers

7

  amaurosis lebers

7
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Modern Translations: Amaurosis

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

Danish

  

Burns'amaurose (Burns amaurosis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

amaurose (blindness), ablepsia (blindness), caecitas amaurosis (blindness). (various references)

   

French

  

amaurose, cécité. (various references)

   

German

  

Amaurosis (blindness), Amaurose (blindness), Ablepsie (blindness), schwarzer star. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμαύρωση Burns (Burns amaurosis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ambliopia postmaritale (Burns amaurosis), ambliopia di Burns (Burns amaurosis). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'底翳 (black cataract), '内障 (black cataract), 明き盲 (illiterate or blind person, person who sees without understanding). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くろそ"ひ (black cataract), "くないしょう (black cataract), あきめくら (illiterate or blind person, person who sees without understanding). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amaurosisay

   

Portuguese

  

amaurose (blindness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slepilo (blindness), gubitak vida. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amaurosis (blindness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

амавроз, повна сліпота. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Amaurosis"

Words rhyming with "amaurosis" (pronounced 'Am`au*ro"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis, Coreopsis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Amaurosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: mosasaur, samurais.

-2 letters: amusias, asarums, samurai, souaris.

-3 letters: amours, amusia, aromas, asarum, miaous, morass, ramous, rimous, samosa, simars, souari.

-4 letters: amass, amias, amirs, amiss, amour, arias, aroma, arsis, arums, assai, auras, auris, maars, mairs, maria, massa, miaou, misos, moira, moras, muras, oasis, omasa, ossia, raias, ramus, risus, roams, saris, saros, simar, simas, soars, somas.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: sanatoriums.

 

+4 letters: masturbations.

 

+5 letters: summarizations, transmutations.

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Alternative Orthography: Amaurosis


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

41 6D 61 75 72 6F 73 69 73

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 01101101 01100001 01110101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#97 &#117 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 0061 0075 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073

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

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

357967878481857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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