Catarrh

Definition: Catarrh

Catarrh

Noun

1. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.

Date "catarrh" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Catarrh \Ca*tarrh"\, noun. [Latin expression catarrhus, Greek expression running down, rheum, from kata` down to flow. See Stream.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	A cold or similar malady. Treated with Achras, Achranthes, ageratum, allium, Anacardium, Ananas, Aniba, Annona, Aristolochia, Bidens, Bramia, Bursera, Cajanus, Calocarpum, Cardiospermum, Carica, CAssia, Cecropia, Cedrela, Ceratonia, Chaetoptelea, Chiococca, Chlorophora, Coccoloba, Cocos, Coleus, Conocarpus, Cordia, Crescentia, Cupania, Cynocon, Dendropogon, Desmodium, Dichromena, Dolichos, Eclipta, Elepahntopus, Enterolobium, Eupatorium, Euphorbia, Hymenaea, Lantana, Lippia, Mangifera, Manicaria, Mimosa, Myroxylon, Paspalum, Paullinia, Pedilanthus, Peperomia, Petiveria, Piper, Pistia, Pseudelepyhantopus, Psidium, Rivina, Salmea, Samanea, Scleria, Sesbania, Siparuna, Solanum, Spondias, Sterculia, Seietenia, Triumfetta, Turnera, Waltheria. (references)
Health	Inflammation of a mucous membrane, with a free discharge (Hippocrates); especially such inflammation of the air passages of the head and throat. (references)
Literature	Catarrh A cold in the head. The word means a down-running; from the Greek katarrheo (to flow down). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excretion	Saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae; (uncleanness).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Catarrh

English words defined with "catarrh": Anticatarrhal ♦ Cata, catarrhal, Catarrhal pneumonia ♦ Defluxion ♦ Epidemical ♦ hay fever ♦ Murr ♦ Rose catarrh. (references)

Specialty definitions using "catarrh": Herpesvirus 1, Equid ♦ Malignant Catarrh. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Asthma, Catarrh, Hayfever & Sinusitus (reference) Catarrh (The New Self Help Series) (reference) Diets to help the relief of catarrh (reference) Production instability and the diversification of Phase I science in Australia : the case of the catarrh epizootics in pre-1850 New South Wales (reference) (more book examples)
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	Ka-Tar-No : the great tonic for catarrh and all catarrhal diseases.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Catarrh, neuralgia & headache no more.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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"Catarrh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Catarrh" is used about 55 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%	55	45,713

Expressions using "catarrh": bovine malignant catarrh ♦ gastric catarrh ♦ Malignant Catarrh ♦ malignant head catarrh ♦ rose catarrh. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "catarrh": catarrh-coloured.
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 "catarrh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrufë (cold, flu, flue, snifter), pezmatim i fytit (laryngitis). (various references)

Arabic		‏نزلة, ‏التهاب القناة التنفسية. (various references)

Bulgarian		хрема (cold, rheum, snuffles). (various references)

Czech		katar. (various references)

Danish		katar (catarrhal inflammation). (various references)

Dutch		catarre (cold, rhinitis). (various references)

Farsi		نزله (Headcold, Snivel), ریزش (Diffusion, Downfall, Gush, Income, Influx, Infusion, Outflow, Slide, Slump, Spray). (various references)

Finnish		katarri. (various references)

French		rhume, catarrhe (catarrhal inflammation). (various references)

German		katarrh (catarrhal inflammation). (various references)

Greek		καταρροή (cold, rhinitis, snuffles). (various references)

Hebrew		שחלת, � זלת (cold). (various references)

Hungarian		hurut (rheum). (various references)

Italian		catarro (catarrhal inflammation, rheum). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		カタマラン船 (catalog, catalog shopping, catalogue, catamaran ship, catharsis). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		カタル . (various references)

Manx		yn toghtan, smug (blubber of jellyfish, mucus, snot, spit, spittle). (various references)

Pig Latin		atarrhcay

Polish		katar. (various references)

Portuguese		catarro (rheum). (various references)

Romanian		catar, guturai (cold in the head, coryza, rheum). (various references)

Russian		катар (qatar). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		katar. (various references)

Spanish		catarro (catarrhal inflammation, cold, Qatar, rhinitis). (various references)

Swedish		katarr. (various references)

Turkish		nezle (cold, common cold, coryza, the sniffles, the snuffles). (various references)

Ukranian		катар (rheum), нежить (cold, coryza, rheum). (various references)

Vietnamese		viêm chảy (catarrhal, catarrhous). (various references)

Welsh		gormwyth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	katarrhous. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "catarrh": catarrhal, catarrhally, catarrhine, catarrhines, catarrhs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Catarrh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cantarero, cataora, catar, catarh, Catari, catarrah, catarrhed, catrrh, Cattaro, Cetraro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: arhat, carat, charr, chart, ratch.
	-3 letters: acta, arch, carr, cart, char, chat, haar, hart, rath, tach, tahr.
	-4 letters: aah, act, aha, arc, art, car, cat, hat, rah, rat, tar.
	-5 letters: aa, ah, ar, at, ha, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: catarrhs.
	+2 letters: acritarch, catarrhal, character, matriarch, patriarch, tracheary.
	+3 letters: acritarchs, archentera, architrave, arthralgic, brachiator, catarrhine, characters, charactery, chartulary, matriarchs, matriarchy, patriarchs, patriarchy, tracheolar.
	+4 letters: architraves, brachiators, cartography, catarrhally, catarrhines, charactered, charlatanry, lachrymator, matriarchal, patriarchal, tetradrachm.
	+5 letters: aortographic, carbohydrate, cartographer, cartographic, characterful, characteries, charactering, characterize, chartularies, chromatogram, galactorrhea, handicrafter, lachrymators, matriarchate, matriarchies, noncharacter, paraphrastic, patriarchate, patriarchies, procathedral, scratchboard, tetradrachms, trochanteral.
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