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CORNEAS

Definition: CORNEAS

CORNEAS

Plural

1. Of Cornea

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: CORNEAS

English words defined with "CORNEAS": Corneule. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: CORNEAS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Most of the studies are concerned with human corneas. (references)

Approximately 20 percent of corneal transplant patients--between 6000-8000 a year--reject their donor corneas. (references)

The only documented cases of rabies caused by human-to-human transmission occurred among 8 recipients of transplanted corneas. (references)

Human Rights

China

In June 2000, Wang Guoqi, a former employee of the Paramilitary Police General Division Hospital in Tianjin, testified before the U.S. Congress that he had harvested skin and corneas from more that 100 executed prisoners. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CORNEAS

"CORNEAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORNEAS" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CORNEAS

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

corneas de transplante

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CORNEAS

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

Chinese 

  

è§'膜 (Cornea, Corneal). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ê°ë§‰ (Cornea, Corneal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orneascay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CORNEAS

Misspellings

"CORNEAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cervezas, colneis, cordemais, Corlears, Corneau, cornes, corneum, cornia, Corniea, cornua, cornwa, kerengas, morenas, Orneau. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CORNEAS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CORNEAS" (pronounced kô"rnēuz)
4-n ē u zpetunias, zinnias.
3-ē u zanemias, areas, arias, arrhythmias, cafeterias, encyclopedias, forsythias, mafias, phobias, poinsettias, utopias, victorias.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CORNEAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coarsen, narcose.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: acorns, arseno, caners, canoes, casern, censor, coarse, cornea, cranes, crones, nacres, narcos, oceans, racons, rances, reason, recons, senora.

-2 letters: acnes, acorn, acres, aeons, arose, arson, caner, canes, canoe, canso, cares, carns, carse, ceros, cones, cores, corns, corse, crane, crone, earns, escar, nacre, narco, narcs, nares, nears, ocean, ocrea, onces, orcas, races, racon.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: acrogens, ancestor, coarsens, enactors, endosarc, nacreous, narcoses, romances, scenario.

 

+2 letters: absconder, accentors, acroleins, amelcorns, ancestors, anchoress, anchorets, anoretics, anorexics, arccosine, cancerous, canephors, cankerous, canonries, caponiers, carotenes, cavernous, censorial, chaperons, coarsened, cocineras, coenamors, colanders, conelrads, confervas, coparents, corantoes, corncakes, cornmeals, coronates, courantes, courtesan, crannoges, creations, endocarps, endosarcs, falconers, larcenous, nectarous, ordnances, outrances, portances, procaines, proscenia, rancheros, reactions, resonance, romancers, scenarios, secondary, veronicas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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


  

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