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"BIFIDA" is a common misspelling or typo for: bifid. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A defect in development of the vertebral column in which there is a central deficiency of the vertebral lamina. (references) |
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Crosswords: BIFIDA |
| English words defined with "BIFIDA": AFP, alpha fetoprotein, alpha foetoprotein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BIFIDA": Arnold-Chiari syndrome ♦ Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome ♦ Neural tube defects. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chiari malformation may be congenital, associated with other anomalies including myelomeningocele, syringomyelia, and spina bifida. (references) | |
GBS is a frequent cause of newborn pneumonia and is more common than other, better known, newborn problems such as rubella, congenital syphilis, and spina bifida. (references) | ||
Rarely, a blocked bladder or urethra may cause the bladder to overfill and leak. Nerve damage associated with the birth defect spina bifida can cause incontinence. (references) | ||
Business | This campaign publicised the findings of a DOH expert committee, which recommended that women take folic acid supplements before conception and for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to drastically reduce the likelihood of their baby being born with neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BIFIDA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "BIFIDA" is used about 57 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) | 84.21% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.79% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BIFIDA": phlox bifida ♦ spina bifida ♦ Spina Bifida Cystica ♦ Spina Bifida Occulta. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BIFIDA": spina-bifida. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BIFIDA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Verdenssammenslutningen for spina bifida og hydrocephalus (World Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus), spina bifida occulta (spina bifida occulta), spina bifida (spina bifida), spaltehvirvel (cleft spine, spina bifida), okkult spina bifida (spina bifida occulta), kryptomerorhachischisis (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
Dutch | verborgen dysrafie (spina bifida occulta), spina bifida (cleft spine, spina bifida), schistorachis (cleft spine, spina bifida), rachischisis (cleft spine, spina bifida), occulte dysrafie (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
Finnish | spina bifida occulta (spina bifida occulta), selkärangan piilohalkio (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
French | vertèbre fendue (spina bifida), spina bifida (spina bifida), rachischisis (spina bifida), hydrorachis (spina bifida), Fédération internationale pour l'hydrocéphalie et le spina bifida (International Federation for Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida), dysraphie occulte (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
German | Bogenspalte (cleft of vertebral arches, fissure of vertebral arches, spina bifida), Bogenschlußanomalie (spina bifida), Spina bifida (spina bifida), Spaltwirbel (cleft spine, spina bifida), okkulte Dysraphie (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
Greek | λανθάνουσα δυσραφία (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
Italian | spina bifida (cleft spine, spina bifida), disrafia occulta (spina bifida occulta). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ifidabay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espinha bífida (cleft spine, spina bifida). (various references) | |
Spanish | espina bífida (spina bifida). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | spina bifida occulta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-f-i-i" | |
-1 letter: bifid. | |
-3 letters: aid, bad, bid, dab, dib, fad, fib, fid. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ai, ba, bi, fa, id, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-f-i-i" | |
+2 letters: basified. | |
+3 letters: beatified. | |
+4 letters: beautified, fimbriated, modifiable. | |
+5 letters: defibrinate, fibrillated, indefinable, indefinably, infibulated, infundibula, syllabified. | |
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