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Definition: Corneal |
CornealAdjective1. Of or related to the cornea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corneal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Crosswords: Corneal |
| English words defined with "corneal": corneal gaft ♦ epikeratophakia, episcleral veins ♦ keratoplasty ♦ venae episclerales. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corneal": Acanthamoeba Keratitis, argyrosis conjunctiva, argyrosis conjunctivae, argyrosis oculi ♦ bernice, blanche, Bueckler's annular corneal dystrophy, Bueckler's corneal dystrophy type IV ♦ caligo cornea, Charlie, cheublan, conjunctival argyrosis, corneal caligo, Corneal Neovascularization, Corneal Topography ♦ Dame Blanche, desmosome, Desmosomes, Dry Eye Syndromes, dystrophia annularis corneae, dystrophia urica, dystrophia urica corneae ♦ Excimer laser ♦ Fluorophotometry ♦ Julie ♦ Keratectomy, keratitis urica, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, Keratomileusis, Laser In Situ ♦ Lecithin Acyltransferase Deficiency ♦ Mucopolysaccharidosis I, Mucopolysaccharidosis II ♦ oculaire ♦ perico, photokeratoscopy ♦ Scotty, Stevens-Johnson syndrome. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) | |
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 | At times non-infectious conjunctivitis, as well as other corneal abnormalities may manifest themselves due to the body's systemic response to viral infections such as infectious mononucleosis, or Epstein-Barr Virus. Credit: CDC. |  | The Slit Lamp and Corneal Microscope. : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The operation is a corneal graft. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by M. Jacot.. |  | Children of William Corneal, farmer who must move out of the area being taken over by the army for maneuver grounds in Caroline County, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An inherited corneal abnormality. (references) | |
In this case, a corneal transplant may be needed. (references) | ||
Ultimately, corneal opacification and blindness occurs. (references) | ||
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| "Corneal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corneal" is used about 27 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corneal": annular corneal dystrophy ♦ Bueckler's annular corneal dystrophy ♦ Bueckler's corneal dystrophy type IV ♦ corneal applanation ♦ corneal argyrosis ♦ corneal caligo ♦ corneal chrysosis ♦ corneal corpuscules ♦ Corneal Diseases ♦ Corneal Edema ♦ corneal fistula ♦ corneal gaft ♦ corneal graft ♦ Corneal Neovascularization ♦ Corneal Opacity ♦ corneal phthsis ♦ Corneal Stroma ♦ Corneal tearing ♦ Corneal Topography ♦ corneal transplant ♦ Corneal Transplantation ♦ Corneal Ulcer ♦ endothelial corneal dystrophy. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "corneal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '膜 (Cornea, Corneas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | corneal, cornea-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | corneaal, de cornea betreffend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sarveiskalvorappeuma (corneal dystrophy), sarveiskalvon turvotus (corneal edema), sarveiskalvon ödeema (corneal edema), dystrophia corneae (corneal dystrophy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cornéen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Korneal..., korneal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κερατοειδούσ χιτώνοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קר י (horny, keratic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corneale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '膜移植 (corneal transplant), '膜反射 (corneal reflex), '膜乾燥症 (corneal xerosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かくまくか"そうしょう (corneal xerosis), かくまくいしょく (corneal transplant), かくまくは"しゃ (corneal reflex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각막 (Cornea, Corneas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornealcay ceratoplastia (corneal grafting, keratoplasty), cicatriz corneana (corneal cicatrix), corpúsculo corneal (corneal corpuscules), crisiase corneana (chrysiosis corneae, corneal chrysosis), erosão da córnea (corneal erosion), argíria corneana (argyrolentis, argyrosis cornea, argyrosis corneae, corneal argyrosis), degenerescência em mosaico da córnea anterior (anterior tesselated mosaic corneal cataract), depósito de cobre na córnea (corneal chalcosis), distrofia anular hereditária (annular corneal dystrophy, dystrophia annularis, hereditary annular dystrophy, ring-shaped corneal dystrophy), distrofia endotelial da córnea (cornea guttata, dystrophia endothelialis corneae, endothelial corneal dystrophy), edema corneano (corneal oedema), abcesso corneano (corneal abscess), epitélio corneano (corneal epithelium), trépano para a córnea (corneal trephine), estesiómetro corneano (corneal sensimeter, kerato-aesthesiometer), fístula corneal (corneal fistula), ftise corneal (corneal phthsis), necrose corneana (corneal necrosis), operação de v.Hippel (corneal transplantation, v.Hippel keratoplasty), paracentese da córnea (corneal puncture), prótese corneana (corneal prothesis, keratoprosthesis), prótese da córnea (corneal prothesis, keratoprosthesis), sífilis corneana (corneal lues), trépano corneano (corneal trephine), edema da córnea (corneal edema). (various references) calcosis de la córnea (corneal chalcosis), caligo corneal (caligo cornea, corneal caligo), cicatriz córnea (corneal cicatrix), corpúsculos corneales (corneal corpuscules), corpúsculos de Toynbee (corneal corpuscules), epitelio córneo (corneal epithelium), argiriasis de la córnea (argyrolentis, argyrosis cornea, argyrosis corneae, corneal argyrosis), degeneración en mosaico de la córnea (anterior tesselated mosaic corneal cataract), distrofia anular de la córnea de Bückler (Bueckler's annular corneal dystrophy, Bueckler's corneal dystrophy type IV, dystrophia annularis corneae), distrofia anular hereditaria (annular corneal dystrophy, dystrophia annularis, hereditary annular dystrophy, ring-shaped corneal dystrophy), distrofia corneal (corneal dystrophy), distrofia de las células endoteliales de la córnea (cornea guttata, dystrophia endothelialis corneae, endothelial corneal dystrophy), distrofia endotelial de la córnea (cornea guttata, dystrophia endothelialis corneae, endothelial corneal dystrophy), absceso de la córnea (corneal abscess), edema de la cornea (corneal edema), trépano para la córnea (corneal trephine), fístula corneal (corneal fistula), lúes córnea (corneal lues), necrosis de la córnea (corneal necrosis), opacidad de la córnea (caligo cornea, corneal caligo), operación de Hippel (corneal transplantation, v.Hippel keratoplasty), paracentesis de la córnea (corneal puncture), prótesis córnea (corneal prothesis, keratoprosthesis), prótesis corneal (corneal prothesis, keratoprosthesis), queratoestesiómetro (corneal sensimeter, kerato-aesthesiometer), queratoplastia (corneal grafting, keratoplasty), sífilis córnea (corneal lues), tisis corneal (corneal phthsis), edema de la córnea (corneal oedema). (various references) kornealödem (corneal edema). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Corneal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carceral, carneal, Carneil, coenwealh, coneral, corel, corgeal, Corneau, Corneill, Cornely, cornerl, corneum, Cornewall, cornia, cornial, Corniea, cornua, cornwa, coroneal, cournel, Orneau, pcornwall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corneal" (pronounced kô'rnē"l) |
| 3 | -n ē" l | anneal, kneel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cloner, coaler, cornea, cornel, lancer, loaner, oracle, recoal, reloan. | |
-2 letters: acorn, alone, anole, caner, canoe, carle, carol, ceorl, claro, clean, clear, clone, coral, crane, crone, enrol, lacer, lance, learn, loner, loran, nacre, narco, nerol, ocean, ocrea, racon, rance, recon, renal. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, aeon, aero, alec, aloe, arco, calo, cane, care, carl, carn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acrolein, amelcorn, colander, colinear, conelrad, cornmeal, falconer, novercal. | |
+2 letters: acroleins, amelcorns, arecoline, censorial, chloracne, chlordane, clangored, clarioned, coeternal, colanders, collinear, concealer, conelrads, conferral, coralline, cornelian, cornmeals, falconers, gerfalcon, larcenous, nucleator, nucleolar, olecranon, overclean, porcelain, recoaling, tolerance. | |
+3 letters: anchorless, arecolines, barleycorn, camerlengo, carbonless, carmagnole, ceremonial, chancellor, chloracnes, chloramine, chlordanes, chlorinate, citronella, cladoceran, clangoured, coelentera, collarbone, complainer, concealers, confederal, conferrals, corallines, corelating, cornelians, cornflakes, coromandel, cradlesong, falconries, gerfalcons, interlocal, laceration, lectionary, narcolepsy, noncentral, nonnuclear, normalcies, nucleators, olecranons, overcleans, porcelains, pratincole, pronuclear, relocating, relocation, tolerances, ulceration. | |
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