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Definition: Amyloidosis |
AmyloidosisNoun1. A disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A group of diseases in which protein is deposited in specific organs (localized amyloidosis) or throughout the body (systemic amyloidosis). Amyloidosis may be either primary (with no known cause) or secondary (caused by another disease, including some types of cancer). Generally, primary amyloidosis affects the nerves, skin, tongue, joints, heart, and liver; secondary amyloidosis often affects the spleen, kidneys, liver, and adrenal glands. (references) |
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Crosswords: Amyloidosis |
| Specialty definitions using "amyloidosis": Amyloid Protein AA, Amyloid Protein SAA ♦ Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Smooth muscle disorders such as amyloidosis and scleroderma. (references) | |
Amyloidosis in dialysis patients is associated with long-term (greater than 6 years) dialysis, and is increased in frequency in older patients. (references) | ||
Patients with certain underlying diseases (e.g., diabetes, amyloidosis, drug dependence) have special problems that may interfere with dialysis. (references) | ||
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| "Amyloidosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amyloidosis" is used about 34 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% | 34 | 59,261 |
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Expression using "amyloidosis": Renal amyloidosis. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
amyloidosis | 249 |
primary amyloidosis | 18 |
lichen amyloidosis | 10 |
amyloidosis symptom | 6 |
amyloidosis familial | 6 |
amyloidosis renal | 4 |
amyloidosis cardiac | 3 |
amyloidosis systemic | 3 |
hereditary amyloidosis | 3 |
amyloidosis lichen treatment | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "amyloidosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | amyloidose (amyloid degeneration), amyloid degeneration (amyloid degeneration, bacony degeneration). (various references) | |
Dutch | amyloidosis (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis), amyloïede degeneratie (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis), amyloïdose (amyloid degeneration). (various references) | |
French | amylose (amyloid degeneration, amylose), amyloïdose (amyloid degeneration), amyloïdisme (amyloid degeneration), dégénérescence amyloïde (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis). (various references) | |
German | Amyloidose (amyloid degeneration), Amyloidopathie (amyloid degeneration), amyloide Degeneration (amyloid degeneration), Amyloid (amyloid, amyloid degeneration), Wachsdegeneration (amyloid degeneration), Speckentartung (amyloid degeneration). (various references) | |
Greek | αμυλοειδική εκφύλιση (amyloid degeneration), αμυλοειδοπάθεια (amyloid degeneration), αμυλοείδωση (amyloid degeneration). (various references) | |
Italian | amilosi (amyloid degeneration), amiloidosi (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis), amiloidismo (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis), degenerazione amiloide (amyloid degeneration, bacony degeneration, typical amyloidosis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amyloidosisay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amiloidose (amyloid degeneration), amiloidismo (amyloid degeneration), degeneração amilóide (amyloid degeneration, typical amyloidosis). (various references) | |
Spanish | amilosis, amiloidosis (amyloid degeneration), degeneración amiloidea (amyloid degeneration, bacony degeneration). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | амілоідоз. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-l-m-o-o-s-s-y" | |
-3 letters: amyloids, dialysis, idolisms, misdials. | |
-4 letters: amidols, amyloid, daimios, daimyos, dismals, dismays, doomily, idolism, iodisms, miladis, misdial, mislaid, mislays, missaid, modioli, moodily, myiasis, saiyids, sialids, sialoid. | |
-5 letters: aiolis, aliyos, amidol, assoil, daimio, daimyo, dismal, dismay, dolmas, dossal, dossil, idioms, iliads, iodism, lissom, miladi, milady, miosis, mislay, missal, missay, moolas, myasis, myosis, mysids, osmols, sadism. | |
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